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Cisco ASA Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20180129-asa1) (destructive check)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 107004

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

The Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software running on the remote device is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability due to an issue with allocating and freeing memory when processing a malicious XML payload. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit the issue to cause a reload of the affected system or to remotely execute code.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco security advisory cisco-sa-20180129-asa1.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?118d2746

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 107004

File Name: cisco_asa_cve-2018-0101_dos.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: remote

Family: CISCO

Published: 2/26/2018

Updated: 9/28/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-0101

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software

Required KB Items: Services/cisco-ssl-vpn-svr

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/29/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/29/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0101

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20180129-asa1

IAVA: 0001-A-0011-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvg35618, CSCvh79732, CSCvh81737, CSCvh81870