CVE-2017-12228 Details
A vulnerability in the Cisco Network Plug and Play application of Cisco IOS 12.4 through 15.6 and Cisco IOS XE 3.3 through 16.4 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data by using an invalid certificate. The vulnerability is due to insufficient certificate validation by the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by supplying a crafted certificate to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to decrypt confidential information on user connections to the affected software. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvc33171.
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2017-12228
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System): EPSS predicts the likelihood that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild. A higher percentage means a greater chance of an exploit occurring. The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%).
0.32 Probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days (55th percentile)
CVSS score for CVE-2017-12228
CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System): An open framework owned and managed by FIRST.Org, Inc. that assigns a numerical score from 0 to 10 to software vulnerabilities to indicate their severity.
5.9 Medium
Products affected by CVE-2017-12228
IOS XE 3.4.4sg
IOS XE 3.7.3e
IOS XE 3.7.5e
IOS XE 3.6.10e
IOS XE 3.8.6e
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CVE-2017-12228 Global Footprint

Top 10 Identified Countries

Country Observations Percentage
PE 64 36.78%
KR 48 27.59%
US 13 7.47%
ID 11 6.32%
PK 9 5.17%
TW 8 4.60%
AU 4 2.30%
DO 3 1.72%
FR 3 1.72%
GB 3 1.72%

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CVE-2017-12228 Industry Footprint

Top 10 Identified Industries

*Service provider organizations (typically Technology and Telecommunications) are disproportionally represented in the results given their upstream ownership of end-user infrastructure. See our FAQs.

Industry* Observations Percentage
Telecommunications 72 85.71%
Education 8 9.52%
Technology 4 4.76%

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