CVE-2017-6709: Cisco Ultra Services Framework

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the AutoVNF tool for the Cisco Ultra Services Framework could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access administrative credentials for Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC) and Cisco OpenStack deployments in an affected system. The vulnerability exists because the affected software logs administrative credentials in clear text for Cisco ESC and Cisco OpenStack deployment purposes. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by accessing the AutoVNF URL for the location where the log files are stored and subsequently accessing the administrative credentials that are stored in clear text in those log files. This vulnerability affects all releases of the Cisco Ultra Services Framework prior to Releases 5.0.3 and 5.1. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvc76659.

Affected products

• Cisco Ultra Services Framework: up to and including 5.0.2

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