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Cisco TelePresence Endpoint Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

high Nessus Plugin ID 131076

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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 Codec (TC) and Collaboration Endpoint (CE) Cisco TelePresence Software is affected by software privilege escalation vulnerability. An authenticated, remote attacker to escalate privileges to an unrestricted user of the restricted shell. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by including specific arguments when opening an SSH connection to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain unrestricted user access to the restricted shell of an 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 CSCvq29901

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a19c9b87

http://www.nessus.org/u?42c440f9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 131076

File Name: cisco-sa-20191106-telepres-roomos-privesc.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 11/15/2019

Updated: 2/6/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15288

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:/a:cisco:telepresence_tc_software, cpe:/o:cisco:telepresence_ce

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15288