CVE-2016-1456: Cisco IOS XR

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The CLI in Cisco IOS XR 6.x through 6.0.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary OS commands in a privileged context by leveraging unspecified container access, aka Bug ID CSCuz62721.

Affected products

• Cisco IOS XR: version 6.0.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0_base only

Published 2016-07-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.