Cisco Firewall Services Module up to 3.1 AAA Authentication denial of service
CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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6.7 | $0-$5k | 0.00 |
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Cisco Firewall Services Module up to 3.1 (Firewall Software). This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component AAA Authentication. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:
Cisco FWSM 3.x before 3.1(3.2), when authentication is configured to use "aaa authentication match" or "aaa authentication include", allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reboot) via a long HTTP request.
The bug was discovered 02/14/2007. The weakness was disclosed 02/15/2007 (Website). The advisory is shared at cisco.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2007-0965 since 02/15/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.
It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.
Upgrading to version 3.x eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (32509). The entries 2940, 2944, 35060 and 35059 are pretty similar.
Product
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Version
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Support
- end of life (old version)
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.7
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VulDB Temp Score: 6.7
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Exploiting
Class: Denial of serviceCWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Firewall Services Module 3.x
Timeline
02/14/2007 🔍02/14/2007 🔍
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02/15/2007 🔍
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02/18/2007 🔍
03/13/2015 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: cisco.comAdvisory: cisco.com
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2007-0965 (🔍)
X-Force: 32509
Vulnerability Center: 14303 - [cisco-sa-20070214-fwsm] Cisco FWSM Remote DoS and Code Execution via a Long HTTP Request, High
SecurityFocus: 22561 - Cisco Multiple Products Multiple Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 24172 - Cisco Firewall Services Module Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 33058 - Cisco Firewall Services Module long HTTP buffer overflow
Vupen: ADV-2007-0609
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Entry
Created: 03/13/2015 12:16Updated: 07/14/2019 16:50
Changes: 03/13/2015 12:16 (63), 07/14/2019 16:50 (7)
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