CVE-2018-0147

A vulnerability in Java deserialization used by Cisco Secure Access Control System (ACS) prior to release 5.8 patch 9 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insecure deserialization of user-supplied content by the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted serialized Java object. An exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the device with root privileges. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvh25988.

  • Published Mar 8, 2018
  • CVSS 9.8 critical
  • 18.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)
  • In CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Affected software

CVE-2018-0147 at the National Vulnerability Database