CVE-2006-1961: Cisco Ciscoworks 2000 Service Management Solution

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cisco CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) and WLSE Express before 2.13, Hosting Solution Engine (HSE) and User Registration Tool (URT) before 20060419, and all versions of Ethernet Subscriber Solution Engine (ESSE) and CiscoWorks2000 Service Management Solution (SMS) allow local users to gain Linux shell access via shell metacharacters in arguments to the "show" command in the application's command line interface (CLI), aka bug ID CSCsd21502 (WLSE), CSCsd22861 (URT), and CSCsd22859 (HSE). NOTE: other issues might be addressed by the Cisco advisory.

Affected products

• Cisco Ciscoworks 2000 Service Management Solution: any version
• Cisco Ethernet Subscriber Solution Engine: any version
• Cisco Hosting Solution Engine: version 1.7 only; version 1.7.0 only; version 1.7.1 only; version 1.7.2 only; version 1.7.3 only
• Cisco User Registration Tool: any version
• Cisco Wireless Lan Solution Engine: version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.3 only; version 2.4 only; version 2.5 only; …

Published 2006-04-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.