Cisco IOS/IOS XE Secure Storage information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco IOS and IOS XE and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Secure Storage. Such manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-1762. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco IOS and IOS XE (Router Operating System) (the affected version is unknown). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Secure Storage. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability in the Secure Storage feature of Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to access sensitive system information on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper memory operations performed at encryption time, when affected software handles configuration updates. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by retrieving the contents of specific memory locations of an affected device. A successful exploit could result in the disclosure of keying materials that are part of the device configuration, which can be used to recover critical system information.

The bug was discovered 03/27/2019. The weakness was disclosed 03/28/2019 (Website). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-1762 since 12/06/2018. Local access is required to approach this attack. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. 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 08/17/2023). This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 316405 (Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Information Disclosure Vulnerability(cisco-sa-20190327-info)).

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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• Router Operating System

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• Cisco

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• IOS
• IOS XE

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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