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Cisco Data Center Network Manager Command Injection (cisco-sa-20200102-dcnm-comm-inject)

high Nessus Plugin ID 140632

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Data Center Network Manager is affected by a command injection vulnerability in the REST and SOAP API endpoints due to a failure to properly validate user-supplied input. An authenticated, remote attacker with administrative privileges can exploit this by sending a crafted request to the API in order to inject arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system (OS).

Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug IDs CSCvr44798, CSCvr46507

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c51ba034

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvr44798

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvr46507

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 140632

File Name: cisco-sa-20200102-dcnm-comm-inject.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: combined

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Family: CISCO

Published: 9/17/2020

Updated: 2/20/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15979

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:data_center_network_manager

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Cisco Prime DCNM, installed_sw/cisco_dcnm_web

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/2/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15978, CVE-2019-15979