Adaptive Security Appliance SoftwareOperating system · Cisco
CVE-2013-1215
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe vpnclient program in the Easy VPN component on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5505 devices allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, aka Bug ID CSCuf85295.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceLocal privilege escalation vulnerability in the vpnclient program within the Easy VPN component on Cisco ASA 5505 security appliances. Allows local users to gain elevated privileges through unspecified attack vectors.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Adaptive Security Appliance SoftwareOperating system
all versions
5500 Series Adaptive Security ApplianceHardware / appliance
all versions
Asa 5500Hardware / appliance
all versionsCVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Authentication
- Single
- Confidentiality
- Complete
- Integrity
- Complete
- Availability
- Complete
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify the Cisco ASA device modelUse the 'show version' command or check the device label to confirm it is a Cisco ASA 5505 or Cisco ASA 5500 Series applianceAffected if The device is a Cisco ASA 5505 or 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance
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Verify Easy VPN client feature statusUse the 'show vpn-sessiondb' or 'show running-config' command to check if the Easy VPN client (vpnclient) is configured or active on the deviceAffected if Easy VPN client (vpnclient) feature is enabled or configured on the device
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Check for local user accounts with console accessUse the 'show running-config | include username' command to list locally configured user accounts; verify which users have privilege level 15 or exec mode accessAffected if Local user accounts exist with console or exec access to the device (required for local privilege escalation)
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Assess physical and console access exposureReview physical security controls and console/SSH access policies to determine if untrusted local users can access the device console or CLIAffected if Untrusted local users have physical access to the device or console/CLI access via SSH/telnet
If the device is a Cisco ASA 5505 or 5500 Series with Easy VPN client enabled and local users have access to the console or CLI, the environment is affected by this privilege escalation vulnerability.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataApply available Cisco security updates for ASA 5505; if no patch exists, restrict physical and console access to the device and consider network segmentation to limit local attack surface.
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Scoped from the published advisory
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- Review / QA4.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2013-1215 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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