{"id":"CVE-2015-6298","aliases":["EUVD-2015-6240","GHSA-hrmr-gjhm-hc4x"],"status":"published","title":"The admin web interface in Cisco AsyncOS 8.x before 8.0.8-113, 8.1.x and 8.5.x before 8.5.3-051,...","description":"The admin web interface in Cisco AsyncOS 8.x before 8.0.8-113, 8.1.x and 8.5.x before 8.5.3-051, 8.6.x and 8.7.x before 8.7.0-171-LD, and 8.8.x before 8.8.0-085 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote authenticated users to obtain root privileges via crafted certificate-generation arguments, aka Bug ID CSCus83445.","severity":{"version":"2.0","score":9,"vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C","level":"high","assessor":"primary","from":"nvd"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.01657,"percentile":0.7679,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-78"],"published":"2015-11-06T11:00:00Z","modified":"2026-06-17T00:30:39Z","products":[{"vendor":"cisco","product":"web_security_appliance"}],"references":[{"url":"http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151104-wsa","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_CISCO","x_transferred","Vendor Advisory"]},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034059","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_SECTRACK","x_transferred"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6298"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hrmr-gjhm-hc4x"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2015-6298","description":"The admin web interface in Cisco AsyncOS 8.x before 8.0.8-113, 8.1.x and 8.5.x before 8.5.3-051, 8.6.x and 8.7.x before 8.7.0-171-LD, and 8.8.x before 8.8.0-085 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote authenticated users to obtain root privileges via crafted certificate-generation arguments, aka Bug ID CSCus83445.","status":"published","published":"2015-11-06T11:00:00Z","modified":"2024-08-06T07:15:13.381Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:35:42.984856Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2015-6240","description":"The admin web interface in Cisco AsyncOS 8.x before 8.0.8-113, 8.1.x and 8.5.x before 8.5.3-051, 8.6.x and 8.7.x before 8.7.0-171-LD, and 8.8.x before 8.8.0-085 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote authenticated users to obtain root privileges via crafted certificate-generation arguments, aka Bug ID CSCus83445.","status":"published","published":"2015-11-06T11:00:00Z","modified":"2024-08-06T07:15:13Z","updated_at":"2026-11-03T02:21:56.647378Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-hrmr-gjhm-hc4x","title":"The admin web interface in Cisco AsyncOS 8.x before 8.0.8-113, 8.1.x and 8.5.x before 8.5.3-051,...","description":"The admin web interface in Cisco AsyncOS 8.x before 8.0.8-113, 8.1.x and 8.5.x before 8.5.3-051, 8.6.x and 8.7.x before 8.7.0-171-LD, and 8.8.x before 8.8.0-085 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote authenticated users to obtain root privileges via crafted certificate-generation arguments, aka Bug ID CSCus83445.","status":"published","published":"2022-05-17T03:26:59Z","modified":"2023-01-27T05:07:01Z","cwes":["CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:43:02.280319Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2015-6298","description":"The admin web interface in Cisco AsyncOS 8.x before 8.0.8-113, 8.1.x and 8.5.x before 8.5.3-051, 8.6.x and 8.7.x before 8.7.0-171-LD, and 8.8.x before 8.8.0-085 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote authenticated users to obtain root privileges via crafted certificate-generation arguments, aka Bug ID CSCus83445.","status":"published","published":"2015-11-06T11:59:03.73Z","modified":"2026-06-17T00:30:39.707Z","cvss":[{"version":"2.0","score":9,"vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C","level":"high","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:03:12.30866Z"}]}}