Aruba AirWave Input Fields injection

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A vulnerability has been found in Aruba AirWave and classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component Input Fields. Performing a manipulation results in injection. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2019-5323. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Aruba AirWave (the affected version unknown). This affects an unknown part of the component Input Fields. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

There are command injection vulnerabilities present in the AirWave application. Certain input fields controlled by an administrative user are not properly sanitized before being parsed by AirWave. If conditions are met, an attacker can obtain command execution on the host.

The weakness was shared 02/27/2020 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at arubanetworks.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-5323 since 01/04/2019. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. A authentication is necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/28/2020). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1055 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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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• Aruba

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• AirWave

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• commercial

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