Cisco IronPort Encryption Appliance up to 6.5.0.0 credentials management

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A vulnerability has been found in Cisco IronPort Encryption Appliance up to 6.5.0.0 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component Encryption. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a credentials management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-255. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

PXE Encryption in Cisco IronPort Encryption Appliance 6.2.4 before 6.2.4.1.1, 6.2.5, 6.2.6, 6.2.7 before 6.2.7.7, 6.3 before 6.3.0.4, and 6.5 before 6.5.0.2; and Cisco IronPort PostX 6.2.1 before 6.2.1.1 and 6.2.2 before 6.2.2.3; allows remote attackers to capture credentials by tricking a user into reading a modified or crafted e-mail message.

The bug was discovered 01/14/2009. The weakness was published 01/14/2009 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at vupen.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2009-0054 since 01/07/2009. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1552.

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 6.5.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (47951). Similar entries are available at 45942, 45941 and 45939.

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Class: Credentials management
CWE: CWE-255
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Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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OpenVAS ID: 64165
OpenVAS Name: Ubuntu USN-707-1 (cupsys)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: IronPort Encryption Appliance 6.5.0.1

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: vupen.com⛔
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2009-0054 (🔍)
X-Force: 47951
SecurityTracker: 1021593
Vulnerability Center: 20523 - [cisco-sa-20090114-ironport] Cisco IronPort Encryption Appliance Spoofing Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 33268 - Cisco IronPort Encryption Appliance and PostX Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 33479
OSVDB: 51396 - Cisco IronPort Products Secure E-mail Forgery User Credential / Message Content Disclosure
Vupen: ADV-2009-0140

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Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 08/24/2019 06:18
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (67), 08/24/2019 06:18 (8)
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