Vulnerability · Published May 6, 2021 · Assigned by cisco

CVE-2021-1438Cisco Wide Area Application Services Software Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 15% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 84.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability in Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain access to sensitive information on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper input validation and authorization of specific commands that a user can execute within the CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to an affected device and issuing a specific set of commands. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read arbitrary files that they originally did not have permissions to access.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)	n/a

Weakness: CWE-668 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

20210505 Cisco Wide Area Application Services Software Information Disclosure Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO