CVE-2015-6280 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2015-6280

The SSHv2 functionality in Cisco IOS 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, and...

Vulnerability Description

The SSHv2 functionality in Cisco IOS 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, and 15.5 and IOS XE 3.6E before 3.6.3E, 3.7E before 3.7.1E, 3.10S before 3.10.6S, 3.11S before 3.11.4S, 3.12S before 3.12.3S, 3.13S before 3.13.3S, and 3.14S before 3.14.1S does not properly implement RSA authentication, which allows remote attackers to obtain login access by leveraging knowledge of a username and the associated public key, aka Bug ID CSCus73013.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

ios, ios xe
Vulnerable Versions:
15.2\(1\)sy, 15.2\(1\)sy0a, 15.2\(2\)e, 15.2\(2\)e1, 15.2\(2\)e2, 15.2\(2\)ea1, 15.2\(2a\)e1, 15.2\(2a\)e2, 15.2\(3\)e, 15.2\(3\)ea, 15.2\(3a\)e, 15.3\(3\)m1, 15.3\(3\)m2, 15.3\(3\)m3, 15.3\(3\)m4, 15.3\(3\)m5, 15.3\(3\)s, 15.3\(3\)s1, 15.3\(3\)s1a, 15.3\(3\)s2, 15.3\(3\)s3, 15.3\(3\)s4, 15.3\(3\)s5, 15.4\(1\)cg, 15.4\(1\)cg1, 15.4\(1\)s, 15.4\(1\)s1, 15.4\(1\)s2, 15.4\(1\)s3, 15.4\(1\)t, 15.4\(1\)t1, 15.4\(1\)t2, 15.4\(1\)t3, 15.4\(2\)cg, 15.4\(2\)s, 15.4\(2\)s1, 15.4\(2\)s2, 15.4\(2\)t, 15.4\(2\)t1, 15.4\(2\)t2, 15.4\(3\)m, 15.4\(3\)m1, 15.4\(3\)m2, 15.4\(3\)s, 15.4\(3\)s1, 15.4\(3\)s2, 15.5\(1\)s, 15.5\(1\)t, 3.6e.0, 3.6e.0a, 3.6e.0b, 3.6e.1, 3.6e.2, 3.6e.2a, 3.7e.0, 3.10s.0, 3.10s.0a, 3.10s.01, 3.10s.1, 3.10s.2, 3.10s.3, 3.10s.4, 3.10s.5, 3.11s.0, 3.11s.1, 3.11s.2, 3.11s.3, 3.12s.0, 3.12s.1, 3.12s.2, 3.13s.0, 3.13s.1, 3.13s.2, 3.14s.0

Timeline

Official Publish: September 28th, 2015
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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