Cisco TelePresence Conductor Bash Remote Code Execution (Shellshock)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 79584

Synopsis

The remote Cisco TelePresence Conductor device is affected by a command injection vulnerability.

Description

According to its self-reported version number, remote Cisco TelePresence Conductor device is affected by a command injection vulnerability in GNU Bash known as Shellshock. The vulnerability is due to the processing of trailing strings after function definitions in the values of environment variables. This allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via environment variable manipulation depending on the configuration of the system.

Note that an attacker must be authenticated before the device is exposed to this exploit.

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.3.1 / 2.4.1 / 3.0 or later.

See Also

https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCur02103

http://www.nessus.org/u?df19d2c1

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/650

https://www.invisiblethreat.ca/post/shellshock/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 79584

File Name: cisco_telepresence_conductor_CSCur02103.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 11/26/2014

Updated: 12/5/2022

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

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 Score Source: CVE-2014-7187

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:telepresence_conductor

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco_TelePresence_Conductor/Version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/24/2014

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 7/28/2022

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (CUPS Filter Bash Environment Variable Code Injection (Shellshock))

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-6277, CVE-2014-6278, CVE-2014-7169, CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187

BID: 70103, 70137, 70152, 70154, 70165, 70166

CERT: 252743

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20140926-bash

IAVA: 2014-A-0142

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCur02103