Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance Web-based Management Interface cross site scripting

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance. This affects an unknown part of the component Web-based Management Interface. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2019-1856. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance (Groupware Software) (affected version not known). It has been classified as problematic. This affects some unknown functionality of the component Web-based Management Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance (PCA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user of the web-based management interface of an affected device. The vulnerability is due to the insufficient validation of data supplied by external devices to the web-based management interface of an affected PCA device. An attacker in control of devices integrated with an affected PCA device could exploit this vulnerability by using crafted data in certain fields of the controlled devices. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the PCA web-based management interface or allow the attacker to access sensitive browser-based information.

The bug was discovered 05/01/2019. The weakness was disclosed 05/03/2019 as cisco-sa-20190501-pca-xss as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-1856 since 12/06/2018. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/12/2023). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

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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• Groupware Software

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• Cisco

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• Prime Collaboration Assurance

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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