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Cisco Firepower Management Center RCE (cisco-sa-20191002-fmc-rce)

high Nessus Plugin ID 129942

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

Remote command execution vulnerabilities exist in the web UI of Cisco Firepower Management Center due to insufficient input validation. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit this by sending crafted input to the web UI to to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands.

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug IDs CSCvf87540, CSCvg04183

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?513acf0b

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewErp.x?alertId=ERP-72541

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvf87540

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvg04183

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 129942

File Name: cisco-sa-20191002-fmc-rce.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 10/15/2019

Updated: 10/7/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12688

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:firepower_management_center

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/firepower_mc/version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/2/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12687, CVE-2019-12688