Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance 5500 8.1 information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance 5500 8.1. It has been classified as critical. This affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5500 devices 8.0(3)15, 8.0(3)16, 8.1(1)4, and 8.1(1)5, when configured as a clientless SSL VPN endpoint, allows remote attackers to obtain usernames and passwords via unknown vectors, aka Bug ID CSCsq45636.

The bug was discovered 09/03/2008. The weakness was shared 09/04/2008 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at xforce.iss.net. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-2736 since 06/16/2008. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/16/2019). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (44870). The entries 43898, 43897, 43896 and 43895 are related to this item.

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: xforce.iss.net
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2008-2736 (🔍)
X-Force: 44870
SecurityTracker: 1020813
Vulnerability Center: 19368 - [Cisco-sa-20080903-asa] Cisco ASA Potential Information Disclosure in Clientless VPNs, Medium
SecurityFocus: 30998 - Cisco PIX and Cisco ASA Multiple Denial of Service and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 31730 - Cisco ASA and PIX Security Appliances Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 47924 - Cisco ASA clientless VPN information disclosure

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Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 08/16/2019 14:55
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (67), 08/16/2019 14:55 (3)
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