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Cisco TelePresence Collaboration Endpoint Software Arbitrary File Write (cisco-sa-20191016-tele-ce-filewrite)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130624

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported version, the Cisco TelePresence Collaboration Endpoint (CE) Cisco TelePresence Software is affected by a vulnerability due to improper permission assignment. An authenticated, local attacker can exploit this by logging in as the remotesupport user to write files to the /root directory of an affected device.

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 CSCvq47315.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?17ced5d0

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvq47315

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130624

File Name: cisco-sa-20191016-tele-ce-filewrite.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 11/8/2019

Updated: 11/15/2019

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15962

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:N/I:H/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:telepresence_ce

Required KB Items: Settings/ParanoidReport, Cisco/TelePresence_MCU/Device, Cisco/TelePresence_MCU/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15962