Cisco Telepresence System Software up to 1.7.x code injection

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Cisco Telepresence System Software up to 1.7.x (Unified Communication Software). This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) implementation on Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch before 1.9.0, Cisco TelePresence Immersive Endpoint Devices before 1.9.1, Cisco TelePresence Manager before 1.9.0, and Cisco TelePresence Recording Server before 1.8.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging certain adjacency and sending a malformed CDP packet, aka Bug IDs CSCtz40953, CSCtz40947, CSCtz40965, and CSCtz40953.

The weakness was disclosed 07/12/2012 as cisco-sa-20120711-ctsman as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at tools.cisco.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2012-2486 since 05/07/2012. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be initiated within the local network. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 70024 (Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch Multiple Vulnerabilities (cisco-sa-20120711-ctms)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 43243 (Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20120711-ctms)).

Upgrading to version 1.7.1%284864%29 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (76852) and Tenable (70024). The entry 61248 is pretty similar.

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Class: Code injection
CWE: CWE-94 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Remote: Partially

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Nessus ID: 70024
Nessus Name: Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch Multiple Vulnerabilities (cisco-sa-20120711-ctms)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Telepresence System Software 1.7.1%284864%29

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05/07/2012 🔍
07/12/2012 +66 days 🔍
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07/17/2012 +5 days 🔍
09/20/2013 +430 days 🔍
03/23/2015 +549 days 🔍
12/06/2021 +2450 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco-sa-20120711-ctsman
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2012-2486 (🔍)
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X-Force: 76852
Vulnerability Center: 35558 - [cisco-sa-20120711-cts, cisco-sa-20120711-ctms, cisco-sa-20120711-ctrs] Multiple Cisco Products Cisco Discovery Protocol Implementation Allows Remote Code Execution, High
SecurityFocus: 54382

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Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 12/06/2021 01:09
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (62), 04/14/2017 14:17 (7), 12/06/2021 01:09 (4)
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