U.S. Dept Of Defense: Arbitrary File Deletion (CVE-2020-3187) on ████████

Hello team,
I hope you’re doing well, healthy & wealthy.
I found an Arbitrary File Deletion (CVE-2020-3187) vulnerability on https://██████████/+CSCOE+/session_password.html that allows the Arbitrary File Deletion.

References

- https://twitter.com/aboul3la/status/1286809567989575685
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158648/Cisco-Adaptive-Security-Appliance-Software-9.7-Arbitrary-File-Deletion.html
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-path-JE3azWw43

Arbitrary File Deletion Reference:

• https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1286808440271183873/pu/vid/1270x720/8tccA2VgHV9TDtW4.mp4

  classification:
  cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
  cvss-score: 9.10
  cve-id: CVE-2020-3187
  cwe-id: CWE-22

Impact

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.

Best regards
@pirneci

System Host(s)

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Affected Product(s) and Version(s)

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software

CVE Numbers

CVE-2020-3187

Steps to Reproduce

Here is the PoC. If you can see “webvpn:” cookie, then you can delete any arbitrary file. I didn’t do it. It’s enough to prove the vulnerability.

PoC

GET /+CSCOE+/session_password.html HTTP/1.1
Host: █████
Sec-Ch-Ua: "Chromium";v="97", " Not;A Brand";v="99"
Sec-Ch-Ua-Mobile: ?0
Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform: "Windows"
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.71 Safari/537.36
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Sec-Fetch-Site: none
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: tr-TR,tr;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7
Connection: close

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Suggested Mitigation/Remediation Actions

Please upgrade to the latest version.