Cisco Webex Video Mesh Web-based Management Interface command injection

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Cisco Webex Video Mesh. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Web-based Management Interface. Such manipulation leads to command injection. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2019-16005. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Cisco Webex Video Mesh (Unified Communication Software) (the affected version unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Web-based Management Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input 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 web-based management interface of Cisco Webex Video Mesh could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the affected system. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of user-supplied input by the web-based management interface of the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to the web-based management interface with administrative privileges and supplying crafted requests to the application. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with root privileges on a targeted node.

The weakness was presented 01/26/2020 as cisco-sa-20200108-webex-video as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-16005 since 09/06/2019. The attack may be launched remotely. A simple authentication is necessary for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1202.

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• Unified Communication Software

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• Cisco

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• Webex Video Mesh

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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