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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2016-1378

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

Cisco IOS before 15.2(2)E1 on Catalyst switches allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive software-version information via a request to the Network Mobility Services Protocol (NMSP) port, aka Bug ID CSCum62591.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published