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Cisco Firepower Management Center Software File and Malware Policy Bypass Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20191002-fire-bypass)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130457

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported VDB version, Cisco Firepower Management Center is affected by a file and malware inspection policy bypass vulnerability, in its VDB component, due to insufficient validation of incoming traffic. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this, by sending crafted HTTP requests, to bypass inspection policies and send malicious traffic through the affected device.

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 CSCvp92361

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d3ca1c5e

http://www.nessus.org/u?ed1b44e7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130457

File Name: cisco-sa-20191002-fire-bypass.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 11/1/2019

Updated: 6/3/2021

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-2019-12701

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_management_center

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/firepower_mc/vdb_build

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/2/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12701

CWE: 20

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20191002-fire-bypass

IAVA: 2019-A-0372-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvp92361