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Cisco Firepower Threat Defense RCE (cisco-sa-20191112-asa-ftd-lua-rce)
high Nessus Plugin ID 131229
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Synopsis
The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patchDescription
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Lua interpreter of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software due to insufficient restrictions on the allowed Lua function calls within the context of user-supplied Lua scripts. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the underlying Linux operating system of an affected device.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 CSCvr96680.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 131229
File Name: cisco-sa-20191112-ftd-lua-rce.nasl
Version: 1.4
Type: local
Family: CISCO
Published: 11/22/2019
Updated: 5/15/2020
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9
Temporal Score: 6.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15992
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.2
Temporal Score: 6.3
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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:firepower_threat_defense
Required KB Items: installed_sw/Cisco Firepower Threat Defense
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2019
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2019
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2019-15992