Cisco CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) and WLSE Express before 2.13, Hosting Solution Engine (HSE) and User Registration Tool
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.
- Published
- Apr 21, 2006
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 2.7% · 85th percentile
- CWE
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Action score
31
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 1 / 30 · 2.7%
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| cisco | user registration tool | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:user_registration_tool |
| cisco | wireless lan solution engine | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:wireless_lan_solution_engine |
| cisco | ciscoworks 2000 service management solution | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ciscoworks_2000_service_management_solution |
| cisco | hosting solution engine | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:hosting_solution_engine |
| cisco | ethernet subscriber solution engine | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ethernet_subscriber_solution_engine |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- cisco ciscoworks 2000 service management solutionall versions
- cisco ethernet subscriber solution engineall versions
- cisco hosting solution engine1.7
- cisco hosting solution engine1.7.0
- cisco hosting solution engine1.7.1
- cisco hosting solution engine1.7.2
- cisco hosting solution engine1.7.3
- cisco user registration toolall versions
- cisco wireless lan solution engine2.0
- cisco wireless lan solution engine2.1
- cisco wireless lan solution engine2.10
- cisco wireless lan solution engine2.11
- cisco wireless lan solution engine2.12
- cisco wireless lan solution engine2.13
- cisco wireless lan solution engine2.2
- cisco wireless lan solution engine2.3
- cisco wireless lan solution engine2.4
- cisco wireless lan solution engine2.5
- cisco wireless lan solution engine2.6
- cisco wireless lan solution engine2.7
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
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No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- P · data can be read
- Integrity
- P · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- P · the service can be disrupted
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Confidentiality impact
- P
- Integrity impact
- P
- Availability impact
- P
Weakness class (CWE)
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CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
nvd-primary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Noroxi analysis
No Noroxi analysis for this record yet
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References
- secunia.com/advisories/19736
- secunia.com/advisories/19739
- secunia.com/advisories/19741
- securitytracker.com/id?1015965
- www.assurance.com.au/advisories/200604-cisco.txt
- www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20060419-wlse.shtml
- www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sr-20060419-priv.shtml
- www.osvdb.org/24813
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431367/30/5490/threaded
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431371/30/5490/threaded
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/17609
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1434
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1435
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25884
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.