Unified Intelligence CenterApplication · Cisco
CVE-2017-12253
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 · uneditedA vulnerability in the Cisco Unified Intelligence Center could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute unwanted actions. The vulnerability is due to a lack of cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by tricking the user of a web application into executing an adverse action. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCve76872.
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 confidenceA CSRF vulnerability in Cisco Unified Intelligence Center allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trick authenticated users into executing unintended actions by forging malicious requests. The root cause is the absence of anti-CSRF tokens or proper request validation mechanisms in the web application.
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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
Unified Intelligence CenterApplication
= 11.5\(1\)CVSS 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
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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 Cisco Unified Intelligence Center installationLocate the Cisco Unified Intelligence Center installation directory or check system services for processes related to cuic (Cisco Unified Intelligence Center). Common paths include /opt/cuic/ or check for cuic* services via system commands.Affected if The product Cisco Unified Intelligence Center is found on the system
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Determine installed versionRun the appropriate command to query the CUIC version. Typically this can be found via 'show version' in the CUIC CLI console, or by checking version files in the installation directory, or via the web interface admin panel.Affected if The installed version is exactly 11.5(1)
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Confirm vulnerability applicabilitySince CVE-2017-12253 affects exactly version 11.5(1) with no version range, verify that the installed version matches 11.5(1) and no other version.Affected if The version matches 11.5(1) exactly
A user is affected if Cisco Unified Intelligence Center version 11.5(1) is installed in their environment.
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 dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens for all state-changing operations and validate the Origin/Referer headers server-side. Apply the vendor patch from Cisco (CSCve76872) when available.
Fix this in Unified Intelligence Center
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Implementation12.0 h
- Testing6.0 h
- Review / QA3.0 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-2017-12253 in production — separate from our analysis above.
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- 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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