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Cisco UCS Director Log4j Remote Code Execution (cisco-sa-apache-log4j-qRuKNEbd)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 161813

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Synopsis

A package installed on the remote host is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability.

Description

Cisco UCS Director is affected by the following critical vulnerability in the Apache Log4j Java logging library as described in the cisco-sa-apache-log4j-qRuKNEbd advisory.
 - Apache Log4j2 2.0-beta9 through 2.12.1 and 2.13.0 through 2.15.0 JNDI features used in configuration, log messages, and parameters do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints.
 An attacker who can control log messages or log message parameters can execute arbitrary code loaded from LDAP servers when message lookup substitution is enabled. From log4j 2.15.0, this behavior has been disabled by default. From version 2.16.0, this functionality has been completely removed. Note that this vulnerability is specific to log4j-core and does not affect log4net, log4cxx, or other Apache Logging Services projects. (CVE-2021-44228) 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 CSCwa47288

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?395cf983

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCwa47288

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 161813

File Name: cisco-sa-apache-log4j-qRuKNEbd-ucs-director.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 6/3/2022

Updated: 2/17/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 10.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-44228

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:ucs_director

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/UCSDirector/version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/23/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/10/2021

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 12/24/2021

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-44228