A vulnerability in Cisco AMP Threat Grid could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive information. The vulnerability is due to unsafe creation of API keys. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using insecure credentials to gain unauthorized access to the affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to gain unauthorized access to information by using the API key credentials.

The virtual network stack on Cisco AMP Threat Grid Appliance devices before 2.1.1 allows remote attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism, and consequently obtain sensitive interprocess information or modify interprocess data, via a crafted malware sample.