CVE-2018-15394: Cisco Stealthwatch Enterprise

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the Stealthwatch Management Console (SMC) of Cisco Stealthwatch Enterprise could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary actions with administrative privileges on an affected system. The vulnerability is due to an insecure system configuration. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the targeted application. An exploit could allow the attacker to gain unauthenticated access, resulting in elevated privileges in the SMC.

Affected products

• Cisco Stealthwatch Enterprise: up to and including 6.10.2

Published 2018-11-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.