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Cisco Prime Infrastructure Java Deserialization RCE (cisco-sa-20160406-remcode)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 90590

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Synopsis

The remote Cisco Prime Infrastructure application running on the remote host is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability.

Description

The Cisco Prime Infrastructure application running on the remote host is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability due to improper sanitization of HTTP user-supplied input. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via an HTTP POST request with crafted deserialized user data, to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

Solution

Upgrade to Cisco Prime Infrastructure version 3.0.2 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?06cadf60

http://www.nessus.org/u?8985417d

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 90590

File Name: cisco_prime_infrastructure_20161291.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: remote

Family: CISCO

Published: 4/19/2016

Updated: 11/20/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-1291

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:/a:cisco:prime_infrastructure

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Prime Infrastructure

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Exploited by Nessus: true

Patch Publication Date: 4/6/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/6/2016

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1291