CVE-2016-1404: Cisco Ucs Invicta c3124sa Appliance

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cisco UCS Invicta 4.3, 4.5, and 5.0.1 on Invicta appliances and Invicta Scaling System uses the same hardcoded GnuPG encryption key across different customers' installations, which allows remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by sniffing network traffic to an Autosupport server and leveraging knowledge of this key from another installation, aka Bug ID CSCur85504.

Affected products

• Cisco Ucs Invicta c3124sa Appliance: version 4.3.1 only; version 4.3_base only; version 4.5.0 only; version 4.5_base only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0_base only

Published 2016-05-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.