CVSS base score: 10.0 (Critical) vendor CNA · v3.1
Score assigned by the vendor's own CVE Numbering Authority (CNA); CISA's Vulnrichment program adds a score only when the CNA omits one.
Cisco IOS XE Web UI Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Vendor: Cisco Product: IOS XE Web UI
Cisco IOS XE Web UI contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the web user interface that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create an account with privilege level 15 access. The attacker can then use that account to gain control of the affected device.
Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 165 points from 2023-10-21, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 99.6% on 2026-06-20.
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What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.
| Date | Source | Article |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-24 | Kaspersky Securelist | StrikeShark: investigating a new campaign delivering Cobalt Strike through SharkLoader |
Articles from monitored vendor research blogs and security news feeds that specifically mention this CVE. Coverage begins when feed monitoring started; earlier articles are not indexed.
Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan);
Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM);
Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence
here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
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some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was
published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available
under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0;
its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed
GNU GPL v2.
| Source | Date | Record |
|---|---|---|
| CISA KEV | 2023-10-16 | source record → |
| CISA Vulnrichment | 2024-10-23 | source record → |
| Date | Advisory | Issuer |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-27 | Countering Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Compromise of Networks Worldwide to Feed Global Espionage System | NSA |
| 2025-08-27 | Countering Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Compromise of Networks Worldwide to Feed Global Espionage System | NSA |
| 2025-08-27 | CSA: Countering China State Actors Compromise of Networks | NSA |
| 2025-06-30 | People's Republic of China Cyberthreat Activity | FBI |
| 2024-11-12 | 2023 Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities | CISA |
| 2024-10-10 | Update on SVR Cyber Operations and Vulnerability Exploitation | NSA |
No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.
Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.
CVE.org record → NVD entry → CISA KEV catalog → FortiGuard Labs → Rapid7 AttackerKB →