The installation of Cisco Transport Controller (CTC) for Cisco Optical Networking System (ONS) 15000 series nodes adds a Java policy file…

Description

The installation of Cisco Transport Controller (CTC) for Cisco Optical Networking System (ONS) 15000 series nodes adds a Java policy file entry with a wildcard that grants the java.security.AllPermission permission to any http URL containing "fs/LAUNCHER.jar", which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on a CTC workstation, aka bug ID CSCea25049.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.1% · top 9.2% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• ADV-2006-1256 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 24438 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• 19553 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• cisco-ons-ctc-code-execution(25647) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 17384 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 1015871 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 20060405 Cisco Optical Networking System 15000 Series and Cisco Transport Controller Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2006-1672](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2006-1672.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2006-1672)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 17:19 UTC.