VDB-142836 · CVE-2019-12674 · GCVE-0-2019-12674

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Container escape output

CVSS Meta Temp Score CVSS is a standardized scoring system to determine possibilities of attacks. The Temp Score considers temporal factors like disclosure, exploit and countermeasures. The unique Meta Score calculates the average score of different sources to provide a normalized scoring system.	Current Exploit Price (≈) Our analysts are monitoring exploit markets and are in contact with vulnerability brokers. The range indicates the observed or calculated exploit price to be seen on exploit markets. A good indicator to understand the monetary effort required for and the popularity of an attack.	CTI Interest Score Our Cyber Threat Intelligence team is monitoring different web sites, mailing lists, exploit markets and social media networks. The CTI Interest Score identifies the interest of attackers and the security community for this specific vulnerability in real-time. A high score indicates an elevated risk to be targeted for this vulnerability.
7.2	$0-$5k	0.00

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Container Handler. The manipulation results in escape output. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2019-12674. The attack is only possible with local access. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (Firewall Software) (affected version unknown). It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown functionality of the component Container Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a escape output vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-116. The product prepares a structured message for communication with another component, but encoding or escaping of the data is either missing or done incorrectly. As a result, the intended structure of the message is not preserved. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Multiple vulnerabilities in the multi-instance feature of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escape the container for their FTD instance and execute commands with root privileges in the host namespace. These vulnerabilities are due to insufficient protections on the underlying filesystem. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by modifying critical files on the underlying filesystem. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands with root privileges within the host namespace. This could allow the attacker to impact other running FTD instances.

The weakness was released 10/02/2019 as cisco-sa-20191002-ftd-containe as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-12674 since 06/04/2019. The attack needs to be approached locally. The successful exploitation needs a authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at VDB-142837. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

Firewall Software

Vendor

Cisco

Name

Firepower Threat Defense

License

commercial

Website

Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

CPE 2.3info

🔍

CPE 2.2info

🔍

CVSSv4info

VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.2
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.2

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

NVD Base Score: 8.2
NVD Vector: 🔍

CNA Base Score: 8.2
CNA Vector (Cisco Systems, Inc.): 🔍

CVSSv2info

AV	AC	Au	C	I	A
💳	💳	💳	💳	💳	💳
💳	💳	💳	💳	💳	💳
💳	💳	💳	💳	💳	💳

Vector	Complexity	Authentication	Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock
Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock
Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock

VulDB Base Score: 🔍
VulDB Temp Score: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

NVD Base Score: 🔍

Exploitinginfo

Class: Escape output
CWE: CWE-116 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
CAPEC: 🔍
ATT&CK: 🔍

Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

EPSS Score: 🔍
EPSS Percentile: 🔍

Price Prediction: 🔍
Current Price Estimation: 🔍

0-Day	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock
Today	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Interest: 🔍
Active Actors: 🔍
Active APT Groups: 🔍

Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍

0-Day Time: 🔍

Timelineinfo

06/04/2019 🔍
10/02/2019 +120 days 🔍
10/03/2019 +1 days 🔍
12/29/2023 +1548 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco-sa-20191002-ftd-containe
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2019-12674 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2019-12674
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-142836
See also: 🔍

Entryinfo

Created: 10/03/2019 09:53
Updated: 12/29/2023 15:59
Changes: 10/03/2019 09:53 (40), 09/19/2020 18:34 (18), 12/29/2023 15:59 (14)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103