Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software SSL/TLS Policy Bypass Vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 126310

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software is affected by following vulnerability

- A vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol parser of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured policies.The vulnerability is due to improper parsing of specific attributes in a TLS packet header.
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious TLS messages to the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass the configured policies for the system, which could allow traffic to flow through without being inspected.
(CVE-2019-1833)

Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCvi81022

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?6f909293

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvi81022

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 126310

File Name: cisco-sa-20190515-ftd-ssltls-bypass.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 6/27/2019

Updated: 10/18/2019

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1833

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:firepower_threat_defense

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/ASA, Host/Cisco/ASA/model, Settings/ParanoidReport

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1833

BID: 108338