SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2006-0561

Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) 3.x for Windows stores ACS administrator passwords and the master key in the registry with insecure permissions, which allows local users and remote administrators to decrypt the passwords by using Microsoft's…

HIGH 7.2EPSS 0.36%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.36%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) 3.x for Windows stores ACS administrator passwords and the master key in the registry with insecure permissions, which allows local users and remote administrators to decrypt the passwords by using Microsoft's cryptographic API functions to obtain the plaintext version of the master key.

CVSS 2.0
7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
0.36% probability · 29th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
cisco/secure access control server
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.