CVE-2015-0693

Cisco Web Security Appliance 8.5.0-ise-147 - Local Privilege Escalation via Pickle Deserialization

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices with software 8.5.0-ise-147 do not properly restrict use of the pickle Python module during certain tunnel-status checks, which allows local users to execute arbitrary Python code and gain privileges via a crafted pickle file, aka Bug ID CSCut39259.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032097
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_cisco
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=38306

Scores

EPSS 0.0038
EPSS Percentile 30.1%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (1)
cisco/web_security_appliance 8.5_base
Published Apr 15, 2015
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026