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Cisco Firepower Management Center RCE (cisco-sa-20191112-asa-ftd-lua-rce)

high Nessus Plugin ID 136719

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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 remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker with valid administrative credentials can configure an Advanced Detector on the FMC web interface and submit a malicious Lua script which, when pushed to a vulnerable managed FTD device, will escape the scripting sandbox and execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the underlying Linux operating system of the FTD 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 CSCvr96680

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0e82478b

https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvr96680

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 136719

File Name: cisco-sa-20191112-fmc-lua-rce.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 5/20/2020

Updated: 6/3/2021

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

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:/o:cisco:firepower_management_center

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/firepower_mc/version, Settings/ParanoidReport

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

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20191112-asa-ftd-lua-rce

IAVA: 2019-A-0425-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvr96680