Cisco Firepower Management Center XSS Vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 124774

Synopsis

A network management application installed on the remote host is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Description

According to its self-reported version, the Cisco Firepower Management Center is by a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to improper validation of user-supplied input before returning it to users. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by convincing a user to click a specially crafted URL, to execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID(s) CSCvk30983.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?43abc8b2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 124774

File Name: cisco-sa-20190123-frpwr-mc-xss.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 5/10/2019

Updated: 3/7/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1642

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:firepower_management_center

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/firepower_mc/version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1642

BID: 106714

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20190123-frpwr-mc-xss

IAVA: 2019-A-0204-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvk30983