CVE-2014-7990: Cisco Air-CT5760

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

Cisco IOS XE 3.5E and earlier on WS-C3850, WS-C3860, and AIR-CT5760 devices does not properly parse the "request system shell" challenge response, which allows local users to obtain Linux root access by leveraging administrative privilege, aka Bug ID CSCur09815.

Affected products

• Cisco Air-CT5760
• Cisco IOS XE: up to and including 3.5e
• Cisco Ws-c3850
• Cisco Ws-c3860

Published 2014-11-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.