Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator up to 4.3.(1.1008) NDO Validate Peer Certificate Site Management certificate validation

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator. Impacted is an unknown function of the component NDO Validate Peer Certificate Site Management. Performing a manipulation results in certificate validation. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-20385. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator. This affects some unknown processing of the component NDO Validate Peer Certificate Site Management. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability in the SSL/TLS implementation of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to intercept sensitive information from an affected device.  This vulnerability exists because the Cisco NDO Validate Peer Certificate site management feature validates the certificates for Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC), Cisco Cloud Network Controller (CNC), and Cisco Nexus Dashboard only when a new site is added or an existing one is reregistered. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using machine-in-the-middle techniques to intercept the traffic between the affected device and Cisco NDO and then using a crafted certificate to impersonate the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to learn sensitive information during communications between these devices.

It is possible to read the advisory at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-20385 since 11/08/2023. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1587.003 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Forum Software

Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator

Version

• 3.7(1d)
• 3.7(1g)
• 3.7(1h)
• 3.7(1i)
• 3.7(1j)
• 3.7(1k)
• 3.7(1l)
• 3.7(2d)
• 3.7(2e)
• 3.7(2f)
• 3.7(2g)
• 3.7(2h)
• 3.7(2i)
• 4.1(2e)
• 4.1(2h)
• 4.2(1d)
• 4.2(1e)
• 4.2(2e)
• 4.2(3e)
• 4.2(3j)
• 4.2(3k)
• 4.3.(1.1008)

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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