CVE-2006-1961Cisco CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) and WLSE Express before 2.13, Hosting Solution Engine (HSE) and User Registration…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 2.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cisco CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) and WLSE Express before 2.13, Hosting Solution Engine (HSE) and User Registration Tool (URT) before 20060419, and all versions of Ethernet Subscriber Solution Engine (ESSE) and CiscoWorks2000 Service Management Solution (SMS) allow local users to gain Linux shell access via shell metacharacters in arguments to the "show" command in the application's command line interface (CLI), aka bug ID CSCsd21502 (WLSE), CSCsd22861 (URT), and CSCsd22859 (HSE). NOTE: other issues might be addressed by the Cisco advisory.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 13% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References14
- 24813 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- ADV-2006-1435 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 17609 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.assurance.com.au/advisories/200604-cisco.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- cisco-wlse-shell-privilege-escalation(25884) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20060419 Multiple vulnerabilities in Linux based Cisco products (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 19736 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20060419 Re: Multiple vulnerabilities in Linux based Cisco products (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 19739 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-1434 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20060419 Multiple Vulnerabilities in the WLSE Appliance (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- 19741 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20060419 Response to Privilege Escalation on Multiple Cisco Products (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- 1015965 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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-2006-1961 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-1961)Record last updated .