Cisco ASA up to 9.3 VPN Failover privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco ASA. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component VPN Failover Handler. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2014-3389. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco ASA (Firewall Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component VPN Failover Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 10/08/2014 by Alec Stuart-Muirk as cisco-sa-20141008-asa as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-3389 since 05/07/2014. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 78240 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 43423 (Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco ASA Software (cisco-sa-20141008-asa)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (96861), Tenable (78240), SecurityFocus (BID 70297†), SecurityTracker (ID 1030979†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-46375†). See VDB-67741, VDB-67742, VDB-67743 and VDB-67744 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 78240
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OpenVAS ID: 800316
OpenVAS Name: Cisco ASA VPN Failover Command Injection Vulnerability
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco-sa-20141008-asa
Researcher: Alec Stuart-Muirk
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2014-3389 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-3389
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-67748

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X-Force: 96861 - Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance VPN code command execution, High Risk
SecurityFocus: 70297 - Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software CVE-2014-3389 Command Injection Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1030979 - Cisco ASA Multiple Bugs Let Remote Authenticated Users Execute Arbitrary Code, Remote Users Deny Service and Conduct Cross-Site Scripting Attacks, and Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges
Vulnerability Center: 46375 - [cisco-sa-20141008-asa] Cisco ASA Remote Host Privilege due to an Error in the VPN Code - CVE-2014-3389, High

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Entryinfo

Created: 10/09/2014 12:54 PM
Updated: 02/21/2022 01:09 PM
Changes: 10/09/2014 12:54 PM (77), 06/08/2017 09:07 AM (5), 02/21/2022 01:02 PM (3), 02/21/2022 01:09 PM (1)
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