Cisco Identity Services Engine contains an input validation vulnerability

Overview

Cisco Identity Services Engine contains an input validation vulnerability (CWE-20).

Description

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) contains an input validation vulnerability. The ISE device contains a TCP Dump option for analyzing traffic on the device. By using a proxy to modify the HTTP request, a remote authenticated attacker can encode commands into the vulnerable format parameter which could allow them to run arbitrary code on the affected system with the privilege of the root user.

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Impact

A remote authenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code as root on the device.

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Solution

Apply an Update

Users are advised to refer to the “Software Versions and Fixes” section of the Cisco Security Advisory for details on which update is appropriate for their version of the Identity Services Engine.

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Vendor Information

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Cisco Systems, Inc. Affected

Notified: September 20, 2013 Updated: October 25, 2013

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

We are not aware of further vendor information regarding this vulnerability.

CVSS Metrics

Group	Score	Vector
Base	9	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Temporal	7.4	E:F/RL:OF/RC:C
Environmental	1.9	CDP:ND/TD:L/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND

References

• <http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html&gt;
• <http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11640/index.html&gt;
• <http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20131023-ise&gt;

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Stephen Hosom for reporting this vulnerability. Cisco also credits Jan Kadijk from Warpnet for first directly reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Adam Rauf.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2013-5530
Date Public:	2013-10-23 Date First Published: