Secure Firewall Management CenterApplication · Cisco
CVE-2015-6411
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 · uneditedCisco FirePOWER Management Center 5.4.1.3, 6.0.0, and 6.0.1 provides verbose responses to requests for help files, which allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive version information by reading an unspecified field, aka Bug ID CSCux37061.
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 · high confidenceCisco FirePOWER Management Center versions 5.4.1.3, 6.0.0, and 6.0.1 contain an information disclosure vulnerability where help file responses are overly verbose, exposing potentially sensitive version information to remote attackers without authentication. This version intelligence could aid in reconnaissance for further attacks.
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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
Secure Firewall Management CenterApplication
= 5.4.1.3= 6.0.0= 6.0.1CVSS 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
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Authentication
- None
- Confidentiality
- Partial
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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 installed Cisco FirePOWER Management Center versionLog into the management console and navigate to System > Licenses > Product Licensing, or use the CLI and run 'show version' to obtain the exact software version.Affected if The version is exactly 5.4.1.3, 6.0.0, or 6.0.1
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Verify the help interface is accessible without authenticationAttempt to access the help file endpoint remotely (commonly at /help/ or similar paths) without providing credentials. This is the vulnerable feature that exposes information.Affected if The help pages are reachable over the network without authentication.
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Inspect help file responses for version disclosureRequest the help pages and examine the HTTP response body or source for version strings, build numbers, or detailed product information that should not be publicly exposed.Affected if The help file responses contain detailed version information such as build numbers, patch levels, or specific software component versions.
You are affected if your Cisco FirePOWER Management Center runs version 5.4.1.3, 6.0.0, or 6.0.1 and the help interface is accessible without authentication, causing version details to be disclosed in help file responses.
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 dataUpgrade to a patched version of Cisco FirePOWER Management Center. If immediate patching is not feasible, restrict network access to the management interface using firewall rules or network segmentation to limit exposure to untrusted networks.
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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.
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