Cisco Emergency Responder up to 12.5 Requests path traversal

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Cisco Emergency Responder up to 12.5. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Requests Handler. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-20352. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Cisco Emergency Responder up to 12.5. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Requests Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-23. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize sequences such as ".." that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability in Cisco Emergency Responder could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct a directory traversal attack, which could allow the attacker to perform arbitrary actions on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient protections for the web UI of an affected system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted requests to the web UI. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to perform arbitrary actions with the privilege level of the affected user, such as accessing password or log files or uploading and deleting existing files from the system.

It is possible to read the advisory at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-20352 since 11/08/2023. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Cisco

Name

• Emergency Responder

Version

• 10.0
• 10.0.2
• 10.5
• 11.0
• 11.5
• 12.0
• 12.5

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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