High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published May 29, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-1404
CVE-2016-1404
Description
Cisco UCS Invicta 4.3, 4.5, and 5.0.1 on Invicta appliances and Invicta Scaling System uses the same hardcoded GnuPG encryption key across different customers' installations, which allows remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by sniffing network traffic to an Autosupport server and leveraging knowledge of this key from another installation, aka Bug ID CSCur85504.
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Affected products
7cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ucs_invicta_c3124sa_appliance:4.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 5 more
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ucs_invicta_c3124sa_appliance:4.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ucs_invicta_c3124sa_appliance:4.3_base:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ucs_invicta_c3124sa_appliance:4.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ucs_invicta_c3124sa_appliance:4.5_base:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ucs_invicta_c3124sa_appliance:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ucs_invicta_c3124sa_appliance:5.0_base:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- Range: 4.3, 4.5, 5.0.1
Patches
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