CVE-2006-4312: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cisco PIX 500 Series Security Appliances and ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances, when running 7.0(x) up to 7.0(5) and 7.1(x) up to 7.1(2.4), and Firewall Services Module (FWSM) 3.1(x) up to 3.1(1.6), causes the EXEC password, local user passwords, and the enable password to be changed to a "non-random value" under certain circumstances, which causes administrators to be locked out and might allow attackers to gain access.

Affected products

• Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance: any version
• Cisco Pix Firewall 501: any version
• Cisco Pix Firewall 506: any version
• Cisco Pix Firewall 515: any version
• Cisco Pix Firewall 515e: any version
• Cisco Pix Firewall 520: any version
• Cisco Pix Firewall 525: any version
• Cisco Pix Firewall 535: any version
• Cisco Pix Firewall Software: version 6.3 only

Published 2006-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.