CVE-2015-0692: Cisco Web Security Appliance

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices with software 8.5.0-ise-147 do not properly restrict use of the pickle Python module during certain tunnel-status checks, which allows local users to execute arbitrary Python code and gain privileges via crafted serialized objects, aka Bug ID CSCut39230.

Affected products

  • Cisco Web Security Appliance: version 8.5_base only

Published 2015-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.