A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Cisco FirePOWER Management Center and FireSIGHT System Software 6.0.1 (Firewall Software). This affects an unknown function of the component X.509 Certificate Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Cisco Firepower Management Center and FireSIGHT System Software 6.0.1 mishandle comparisons between URLs and X.509 certificates, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended do-not-decrypt settings via a crafted URL, aka Bug ID CSCva50585.

The weakness was disclosed 09/24/2016 as CSCva50585 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2016-6411 since 07/26/2016. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/20/2022).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Firewall Software

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• Cisco

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• FirePOWER Management Center
• FireSIGHT System Software

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• 6.0.1

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• commercial

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