CVE-2017-6708: Cisco Ultra Services Framework

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the symbolic link (symlink) creation functionality of the AutoVNF tool for the Cisco Ultra Services Framework could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to read sensitive files or execute malicious code on an affected system. The vulnerability is due to the absence of validation checks for the input that is used to create symbolic links. This vulnerability affects all releases of the Cisco Ultra Services Framework prior to Releases 5.0.3 and 5.1. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvc76654.

Affected products

• Cisco Ultra Services Framework: up to and including 5.0.2

Published 2017-07-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.