A vulnerability in Cisco Cloud Portal Appliance could aid an unauthenticated, remote attacker in performing a man-in-the-middle attack. The vulnerability is due to a design error in the affected software. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform a man-in-the-middle attack against a user logging in to a targeted device. A successful exploit could be used to conduct further attacks. Cisco has confirmed the vulnerability and released software updates. Cisco indicates through the CVSS score that functional exploit code exists; however, the code is not known to be publicly available.
The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory.
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Version | Description | Section | Status | Date |
1.0 | Initial Release | NA | Final | 2015-Jun-16 |
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