Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Device Manager Web UI Request Handling Arbitrary Log Entry Injection (cisco-sa-20170201-fpw2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 99400

Synopsis

The packet inspection software installed on the remote host is affected by an arbitrary log entry injection vulnerability.

Description

According to its version and configuration, the Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software installed on the remote device is affected by an arbitrary log entry injection vulnerability in the Firepower Device Manager (FDM) due to improper validation of user-supplied input. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted request to the web UI, to add arbitrary entires and false alarms to the audit log.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCvb86860.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e8709094

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 99400

File Name: cisco-sa-20170201-fpw2.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 4/14/2017

Updated: 11/13/2019

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/ASA, Host/Cisco/ASA/model, Settings/ParanoidReport

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-3822

BID: 95944

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20170201-fpw2

IAVB: 2017-B-0019

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvb86860