Cisco Identity Services Engine CLI command injection

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Cisco Identity Services Engine. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component CLI. The manipulation leads to command injection. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2023-20153. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Identity Services Engine (Policy Management Software) (affected version unknown) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component CLI. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple vulnerabilities in specific Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) CLI commands could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform command injection attacks on the underlying operating system and elevate privileges to root. To exploit these vulnerabilities, an attacker must have valid Administrator privileges on the affected device. These vulnerabilities are due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by submitting a crafted CLI command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to root.

The weakness was presented 04/06/2023 as cisco-sa-ise-injection-2XbOg9Dg. It is possible to read the advisory at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-20153 since 10/27/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-24332). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Policy Management Software

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• Cisco

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• Identity Services Engine

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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