# CVE-2017-6730: Information disclosure in Cisco Wide Area Application Services

> Unauthenticated remote attackers can retrieve completed reports from Cisco WAAS Central Manager, exposing sensitive information.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Jul 2017
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-rm85-79m7-hgch

## What is CVE-2017-6730?

CVE-2017-6730 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Wide Area Application Services, published on 10 Jul 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability in the web-based GUI of Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Central Manager could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to retrieve completed reports from an affected system, aka Information Disclosure. This vulnerability affects the following products if they are running an affected release of Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Software and are configured to use the Central Manager function: Cisco Virtual Wide Area Application Services (vWAAS), Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Appliances, Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Modules. Only Cisco WAAS products that are configured with the Central Manager role are affected by this vulnerability. More Information: CSCvd87574. Known Affected Releases: 4.4(7) 6.2(1) 6.2(3). Known Fixed Releases: 6.3(0.228) 6.3(0.226) 6.2(3d)8 5.5(7b)17.

Weakness: CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-6730?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Cisco Wide Area Application Services.

## How do I fix CVE-2017-6730?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-6730 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2017-6730 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6730 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Wide Area Application Services

- [CVE-2013-3443](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-3443/): Code injection in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2014-2196](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-2196/): Code injection in n/a (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2007-3923](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-3923/): Denial of service in n/a (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2015-6421](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-6421/): Denial of service in n/a (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2017-6628](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-6628/): Denial of service in Cisco Wide Area Application Services SMART-SSL Accelerator (medium 6.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2017-6730 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2017-6730 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Wide Area Application Services, published on 10 Jul 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6730 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Cisco Wide Area Application Services. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-6730/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-6730/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6730
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6730
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-6730

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