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CVE-2016-1473

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—

Cisco Small Business 220 devices with firmware before 1.0.1.1 have a hardcoded SNMP community, which allows remote attackers to read or modify SNMP objects by leveraging knowledge of this community, aka Bug ID CSCuz76216.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Cisco — Small Business 220 Series Smart Plus Switches

CWEs

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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