Cisco Unified Communications Manager up to 8.6 untrusted search path

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Unified Communications Manager up to 8.6 (Unified Communication Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-426. The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) 7.1(x) through 9.1(1a) allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging unspecified file-permission and environment-variable issues for privileged programs, aka Bug ID CSCui02276.

The weakness was published 07/18/2013 as cisco-sa-20130717-cucm as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2013-3433 since 05/06/2013. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/03/2022). This vulnerability is assigned to T1574 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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 (85771). Similar entries are available at 64492, 64491, 64489 and 64488.

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Class: Untrusted search path
CWE: CWE-426
ATT&CK: T1574

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Remote: No

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco-sa-20130717-cucm
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2013-3433 (🔍)
X-Force: 85771
Vulnerability Center: 40618 - [cisco-sa-20130717-cucm] Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7.1(x) - 9.1(1a) Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2013-3433), Medium
SecurityFocus: 61297 - Cisco Unified Communications Manager CVE-2013-3433 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia: 54249 - Cisco Unified Communications Manager Multiple Vulnerabilities, Less Critical

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/24/2015 15:54
Updated: 01/03/2022 18:49
Changes: 03/24/2015 15:54 (51), 05/06/2017 19:20 (11), 01/03/2022 18:49 (3)
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