Cisco Firepower Management Center up to 7.4.1.1 cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Cisco Firepower Management Center and classified as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-20274. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Firepower Management Center. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software, formerly Firepower Management Center Software, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary HTML content into a device-generated document. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of user-supplied data. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting malicious content to an affected device and using the device to generate a document that contains sensitive information. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to alter the standard layout of the device-generated documents, access arbitrary files from the underlying operating system, and conduct server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need valid credentials for a user account with policy-editing permissions, such as Network Admin, Intrusion Admin, or any custom user role with the same capabilities.

It is possible to read the advisory at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-20274 since 11/08/2023. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Firewall Software

Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• Firepower Management Center

Version

• 6.2.3
• 6.2.3.1
• 6.2.3.2
• 6.2.3.3
• 6.2.3.4
• 6.2.3.5
• 6.2.3.6
• 6.2.3.7
• 6.2.3.8
• 6.2.3.9
• 6.2.3.10
• 6.2.3.11
• 6.2.3.12
• 6.2.3.13
• 6.2.3.14
• 6.2.3.15
• 6.2.3.16
• 6.2.3.17
• 6.2.3.18
• 6.4.0
• 6.4.0.1
• 6.4.0.2
• 6.4.0.3
• 6.4.0.4
• 6.4.0.5
• 6.4.0.6
• 6.4.0.7
• 6.4.0.8
• 6.4.0.9
• 6.4.0.10
• 6.4.0.11
• 6.4.0.12
• 6.4.0.13
• 6.4.0.14
• 6.4.0.15
• 6.4.0.16
• 6.4.0.17
• 6.4.0.18
• 6.6.0
• 6.6.0.1
• 6.6.1
• 6.6.3
• 6.6.4
• 6.6.5
• 6.6.5.1
• 6.6.5.2
• 6.6.7
• 6.6.7.1
• 6.6.7.2
• 6.7.0
• 6.7.0.1
• 6.7.0.2
• 6.7.0.3
• 7.0.0
• 7.0.0.1
• 7.0.1
• 7.0.1.1
• 7.0.2
• 7.0.2.1
• 7.0.3
• 7.0.4
• 7.0.5
• 7.0.6
• 7.0.6.1
• 7.1.0
• 7.1.0.1
• 7.1.0.2
• 7.1.0.3
• 7.2.0
• 7.2.0.1
• 7.2.1
• 7.2.2
• 7.2.3
• 7.2.3.1
• 7.2.4
• 7.2.4.1
• 7.2.5
• 7.2.5.1
• 7.2.5.2
• 7.3.0
• 7.3.1
• 7.3.1.1
• 7.3.1.2
• 7.4.0
• 7.4.1
• 7.4.1.1

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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