01 Record
CVE-2012-5424
Cisco Secure Access Control System (ACS) 5.x before 5.2 Patch 11 and 5.3 before 5.3 Patch 7, when a certain configuration involving TACACS+ and LDAP is used, does not properly validate passwords,
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: cisco
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Cisco Secure Access Control System (ACS) 5.x before 5.2 Patch 11 and 5.3 before 5.3 Patch 7, when a certain configuration involving TACACS+ and LDAP is used, does not properly validate passwords,
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.45% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2012-11-07 23:00Z13 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 21:05Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2012-10-17
- Assigning CNA
- cisco
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- c90f37bb835d52e6f350aa5c57adbc9f21caf2ccae2a9a9d67eb036376cbc308
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- tools.cisco.com20121107 Cisco Secure Access Control System TACACS+ Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilityhttp://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20121107-acs
- osvdb.org87251http://osvdb.org/87251
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comcisco-acs-sec-bypass(79860)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79860
- www.securityfocus.com56433http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56433
- secunia.com51194http://secunia.com/advisories/51194
- www.securitytracker.com1027733http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027733