Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices with software 8.5.0-ise-147 do not properly restrict use of the pickle Python module during certain tunnel-status checks, which allows local users to execute arbitrary Python code and gain privileges via a crafted pickle file, aka Bug ID CSCut39259.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0693
Reference (s):
- CISCO:20150413 Cisco Web Security Appliance Python File Processing Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- URL: http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=38306
- SECTRACK:1032097
- URL: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032097