CVE-2017-6748: Cisco Web Security Appliance

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the CLI parser of the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform command injection and elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid operator-level or administrator-level credentials. Affected Products: virtual and hardware versions of Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA). More Information: CSCvd88855. Known Affected Releases: 10.1.0-204. Known Fixed Releases: 10.5.1-270 10.1.1-234.

Affected products

• Cisco Web Security Appliance: version 10.0.0-232 only; 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; …
• Cisco Web Security Virtual Appliance: version 10.0.0 only; version 10.0_base only; version 10.1.0 only; version 10.1.1 only; version 10.1_base only; version 10.5.1 only; …

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