Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Container escape output

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense. This affects an unknown part of the component Container Handler. This manipulation causes escape output. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2019-12675. The attack is restricted to local execution. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (Firewall Software) (affected version not known). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the component Container Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a escape output vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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 disclosed 10/02/2019 as cisco-sa-20191002-ftd-containe as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2019-12675 since 06/04/2019. An attack has to be approached locally. A single authentication is required for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Firewall Software

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• Cisco

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• Firepower Threat Defense

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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