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Cisco IOS local privilege escalation
Cisco released earlier a vulnerability note detailing a problem within some Cisco IOS versions that bypasses the command authorization offered by AAA services such as TACACS+. The bypass uses tclsh.

Why a router would need tclsh is a mystery to this handler.

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Swa Frantzen


 Swa

760 Posts
Jan 25th 2006
Thread locked Subscribe Jan 25th 2006
1 decade ago

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