Cisco StarOS on ASR 5000 CLI Argument command injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco StarOS on ASR 5000. It has been declared as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component CLI. Such manipulation as part of Argument leads to command injection. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2018-0224. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco StarOS on ASR 5000 (Router Operating System) (version now known). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component CLI. The manipulation as part of a Argument leads to a command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability in the CLI of the Cisco StarOS operating system for Cisco ASR 5000 Series Aggregation Services Routers could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on an affected operating system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input by the affected operating system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to an affected system and injecting malicious arguments into a vulnerable CLI command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the affected system. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvg38807.

The bug was discovered 03/07/2018. The weakness was presented 03/08/2018 with Cisco (Website). The advisory is available at securitytracker.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-0224 since 11/27/2017. 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. This vulnerability is assigned to T1202 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 107095 (Cisco ASR StarOS Multiple CLI Command Injection Vulnerabilities (cisco-sa-20180117-staros / cisco-sa-20180307-staros / cisco-sa-20180307-staros1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (107095) and SecurityFocus (BID 103344†). See VDB-112223 and VDB-114212 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Command injection
CWE: CWE-77 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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Nessus ID: 107095
Nessus Name: Cisco ASR StarOS Multiple CLI Command Injection Vulnerabilities (cisco-sa-20180117-staros / cisco-sa-20180307-staros / cisco-sa-20180307-staros1)
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11/27/2017 🔍
01/17/2018 +51 days 🔍
03/02/2018 +44 days 🔍
03/07/2018 +5 days 🔍
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03/08/2018 +1 days 🔍
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03/09/2018 +1 days 🔍
02/17/2023 +1806 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: securitytracker.com⛔
Organization: Cisco
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2018-0224 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-0224
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-114218
SecurityFocus: 103344 - Cisco StarOS for ASR 5000 Series Routers CVE-2018-0224 Local Command Injection Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1040466

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/09/2018 07:47
Updated: 02/17/2023 13:44
Changes: 03/09/2018 07:47 (69), 01/11/2020 15:12 (6), 02/17/2023 13:44 (4)
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