CVE-2015-6424 (GCVE-0-2015-6424)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-12-18 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:22
VLAI
Summary
The boot manager in Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) 1.1(0.920a) allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and obtain single-user-mode root access via unspecified vectors, aka Bug ID CSCuu83985.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/Ci… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79410 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034468 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Date Public
2015-12-16 00:00
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