Cisco Identity Services Engine Logging Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability in the logging component of Cisco Identity Services Engine could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. The vulnerability is due to the improper validation of requests stored in the system's logging database. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious requests to the targeted system. An exploit could allow the attacker to conduct cross-site scripting attacks when an administrator views the logs in the Admin Portal.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.1% · top 35% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.

Weakness

• CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Cisco · Cisco Identity Services Engine Software

  • affected n/a

What to do

Exploitation: The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory.

References (2)

• 20190123 Cisco Identity Services Engine Logging Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
• 106708 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2018-15455](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2018-15455.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2018-15455)

Record last updated 21 Nov 2024, 19:48 UTC.