Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning ScriptMgr HEAD request vulnerability

Added: 10/25/2017
CVE: CVE-2017-6622
BID: 98520

Background

The Cisco Prime Collaboration product family facilitates installation and maintenance of Cisco Unified Communications and Cisco TelePresence components, as well as the provisioning of users and services.

Problem

Missing security constraints allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary Java code by sending a specially crafted HEAD request for the **ScriptMgr** servlet.

Resolution

Upgrade to Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning 12.1 or higher.

References

<https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170517-pcp1&gt;

Limitations

The netcat utility must exist on the target in order for the exploit to succeed.

Platforms

Linux