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Cisco Identity Services Engine RCE (cisco-sa-struts-C2kCMkmT)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 187166

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

An attacker can manipulate file upload params to enable paths traversal and under some circumstances this can lead to uploading a malicious file which can be used to perform Remote Code Execution.

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 CSCwi45131

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5dc0c57b

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCwi45131

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 187166

File Name: cisco-sa-struts-C2kCMkmT.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 12/21/2023

Updated: 2/15/2024

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-50164

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/h:cisco:identity_services_engine, cpe:/a:cisco:identity_services_engine, cpe:/a:cisco:identity_services_engine_software

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-50164

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-struts-C2kCMkmT

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCwi45131