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Cisco Email Security Appliance Telnet Remote Code Execution (cisco-sa-20120126-ironport)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 79271
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Synopsis
The remote security appliance is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.Description
According to its self-reported version, the version of AsyncOS running on the remote Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability due to a buffer overflow condition in the telnet component.Solution
Apply the relevant update referenced in Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-20120126-ironport.Alternatively, as a workaround, the vendor notes that Telnet services can be disabled on the device.
See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?a6a6592a
https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCzv32432
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:08.telnetd.asc
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 79271
File Name: cisco-sa-20120126-esa.nasl
Version: 1.9
Type: local
Family: CISCO
Published: 11/17/2014
Updated: 11/25/2019
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Critical
Score: 9.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 8.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 9.4
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:H/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/h:cisco:email_security_appliance, cpe:/o:cisco:asyncos, cpe:/o:cisco:email_security_appliance_firmware
Required KB Items: Host/AsyncOS/Cisco Email Security Appliance/DisplayVersion, Host/AsyncOS/Cisco Email Security Appliance/Version
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 10/28/2014
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/23/2011
Exploitable With
Core Impact
Metasploit (Linux BSD-derived Telnet Service Encryption Key ID Buffer Overflow)
ExploitHub (EH-11-760)
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-4862
BID: 51182
CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20120126-ironport
CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCzv32432