Cisco TelePresence VCS / Expressway 12.5.x < 12.5.4 XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130258

Synopsis

A video conferencing application running on the remote host is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Description

According to its self-reported version, the Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) / Expressway running on the remote host is 12.5.x prior to 12.5.4. It is, therefore, affected 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.

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 Cisco TelePresence VCS / Expressway version 12.5.4 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7822cce9

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvq09300

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130258

File Name: cisco-sa-20191016-vcs-xss.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: remote

Family: CISCO

Published: 10/25/2019

Updated: 4/11/2022

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12705

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:telepresence_video_communication_server, cpe:/a:cisco:expressway_software, cpe:/a:cisco:telepresence_video_communication_server_software, cpe:/h:cisco:telepresence_video_communication_server

Required KB Items: Cisco/TelePresence_VCS/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12705

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20191016-vcs-xss

IAVA: 2019-A-0389-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvq09300