Cisco Ciscoworks Voice Manager up to 3.1 TFTP Service path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Ciscoworks Voice Manager up to 3.1. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown code of the component TFTP Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Directory traversal vulnerability in the TFTP service in Cisco CiscoWorks Common Services (CWCS) 3.0.x through 3.2.x on Windows, as used in Cisco Unified Service Monitor, Security Manager, TelePresence Readiness Assessment Manager, Unified Operations Manager, Unified Provisioning Manager, and other products, allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

The bug was discovered 05/20/2009. The weakness was published 05/20/2009 with Cisco (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at cisco.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2009-1161 since 03/26/2009. The exploitability is told to be easy. 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 attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 18262 (TFTP Traversal Arbitrary File Access), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Misc. and running in the context r.

A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (50657) and Tenable (18262). Similar entries are available at 13637, 13973, 19995 and 46098.

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Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-22
ATT&CK: T1006

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Nessus ID: 18262
Nessus Name: TFTP Traversal Arbitrary File Access
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OpenVAS ID: 64175
OpenVAS Name: Ubuntu USN-776-2 (kvm)
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Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Organization: Cisco
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2009-1161 (🔍)
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X-Force: 50657
SecurityTracker: 1022263
Vulnerability Center: 22161 - [cisco-sa-20090520-cw] CiscoWork Common Services TFTP Remote Access to Arbitrary Files Vulnerability, High
SecurityFocus: 35040 - CiscoWorks Common Services TFTP Server Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Secunia: 35179
OSVDB: 54616 - CiscoWorks Common Services TFTP Traversal Arbitrary File Access
Vupen: ADV-2009-1390

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Created: 03/17/2015 23:38
Updated: 08/11/2021 10:08
Changes: 03/17/2015 23:38 (84), 09/04/2019 18:20 (1), 08/11/2021 10:08 (3)
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