Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Path Traversal Vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130259

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) is affected by a directory traversal vulnerability due to improper sanitization of user-supplied input in command-line parameters that describe file names.
An authenticated, local attacker can exploit this to view system files that should be restricted.

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 ID CSCvq59683

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130259

File Name: cisco-sa-20191016-wlc-pathtrav.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 10/25/2019

Updated: 5/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15266

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:wireless_lan_controller_software, cpe:/h:cisco:wireless_lan_controller

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/WLC/Version, Host/Cisco/WLC/Port

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15266

CWE: 22

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20191016-wlc-pathtrav

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvq59683

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