CVE-2015-6280 — Improper Authentication in Cisco IOS

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication4 documents4 sources
Severity
9.3CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.2%
top 21.34%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Cisco IOSCisco IOS XE
Timeline
PublishedSep 28
Latest updateMay 17

Description

The SSHv2 functionality in Cisco IOS 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, and 15.5 and IOS XE 3.6E before 3.6.3E, 3.7E before 3.7.1E, 3.10S before 3.10.6S, 3.11S before 3.11.4S, 3.12S before 3.12.3S, 3.13S before 3.13.3S, and 3.14S before 3.14.1S does not properly implement RSA authentication, which allows remote attackers to obtain login access by leveraging knowledge of a username and the associated public key, aka Bug ID CSCus73013.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDcisco/ios48 versions+47
▶NVDcisco/ios_xe26 versions+25

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-gm2f-vjp3-xm46: The SSHv2 functionality in Cisco IOS 15↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2015-6280: The SSHv2 functionality in Cisco IOS 15↗2015-09-28
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Cisco
Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software SSH Version 2 RSA-Based User Authentication Bypass Vulnerability↗2015-09-23
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