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CVE-2006-0561Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) 3.x for Windows stores ACS administrator passwords and the master key in the registry with…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.37%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 69% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) 3.x for Windows stores ACS administrator passwords and the master key in the registry with insecure permissions, which allows local users and remote administrators to decrypt the passwords by using Microsoft's cryptographic API functions to obtain the plaintext version of the master key.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References9
- 16743 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20060508 Response to Symantec SYMSA-2006-003 Cisco Secure ACS for Windows - Administrator Password Disclosure (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/research/SYMSA-2006-003.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1016042 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 25892 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- ADV-2006-1741 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- cisco-acs-admin-password-disclosure(26307) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20060508 SYMSA-2006-003: Cisco Secure ACS for Windows - Administrator Password Disclosure (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20060508 Re: SYMSA-2006-003: Cisco Secure ACS for Windows - Administrator Password Disclosure (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-0568 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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