CVE-2017-6746: Cisco Web Security Appliance

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the web interface of the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform command injection and elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid administrator credentials. Affected Products: Cisco AsyncOS Software 10.0 and later for WSA on both virtual and hardware appliances. More Information: CSCvd88862. Known Affected Releases: 10.1.0-204. Known Fixed Releases: 10.5.1-270 10.1.1-235.

Affected products

• Cisco Web Security Appliance: version 10.0.0-233 only; version 10.0_base only; version 10.1.0 only; version 10.1.0-204 only; version 10.1.1-230 only; version 10.1.1-234 only; …

Published 2017-07-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.