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Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Privilege Escalation (cisco-sa-20190501-apic-priv-escalation)

high Nessus Plugin ID 139324

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) is affected by a vulnerability in the FUSE filesystem functionality. This is due to insufficient input validation of CLI commands.
An authenticated, local attacker can exploit this by alter certain definitions in a affected file, allowing them to execute commands and gain root privilages.

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 CSCvn09779

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?55ee56eb

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvn09779

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 139324

File Name: cisco-sa-20190501-apic-priv-escalation.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: remote

Family: CISCO

Published: 8/5/2020

Updated: 8/7/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1682

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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:application_policy_infrastructure_controller, cpe:/o:cisco:application_policy_infrastructure_controller_firmware

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Cisco APIC Software

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/1/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1682

BID: 108129