Cisco IP Phone 7900 SNMP Accounts improper authentication

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Cisco IP Phone 7900 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component SNMP Accounts. The manipulation leads to improper authentication. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2005-3803. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco IP Phone 7900 (IP Phone Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component SNMP Accounts. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. Impacted is confidentiality, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cisco IP Phone (VoIP) 7920 1.0(8) contains certain hard-coded ("fixed") public and private SNMP community strings that cannot be changed, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information.

The weakness was disclosed 11/17/2005 by Shawn Merdinger with Cisco (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at cisco.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2005-3803 since 11/24/2005. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

After before and not just, there has been an exploit disclosed. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at cisco.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (23067), SecurityFocus (BID 15454†), OSVDB (20966†), Secunia (SA17604†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1015232†). The entries VDB-1908 and VDB-27077 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.2

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VulDB Temp Score: 6.2
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Improper authentication
CWE: CWE-287
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Patch: cisco.com

Timelineinfo

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Researcher: Shawn Merdinger
Organization: Cisco
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2005-3803 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-3803
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-1907
X-Force: 23067 - Cisco IP Phone default SNMP community strings, Medium Risk
SecurityFocus: 15454 - Cisco 7920 Wireless IP Phone Fixed SNMP Community String Vulnerability
Secunia: 17604 - Cisco Wireless IP Phone Two Vulnerabilities, Less Critical
OSVDB: 20966 - Cisco 7920 Wireless IP Phone Persistent Default SNMP Strings
SecurityTracker: 1015232

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Entryinfo

Created: 11/18/2005 11:48
Updated: 04/20/2018 09:28
Changes: 11/18/2005 11:48 (72), 04/20/2018 09:28 (9)
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Cache ID: 216:7B5:103

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