Cisco ISE Flaw: Read-Only Admin to Root, No Workarounds

A Cisco ISE flaw lets a read-only admin escalate to root, with no workarounds available.

A reported Cisco ISE flaw allows a read-only administrator to escalate to root, with no workarounds available.

  • The issue elevates a low-privilege read-only admin account to full root.
  • No workarounds are noted, so patching is the path to remediation.
  • Identity-and-access infrastructure itself is the exposed surface here.

This briefing is part of SecureW2’s Cybersecurity Intelligence series, which tracks identity, certificate, and network-security events for the teams who have to respond to them.