Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager up to 20.3.1 Web-based Management Interface insufficiently protected credentials

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. This affects an unknown function of the component Web-based Management Interface. This manipulation causes insufficiently protected credentials. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2021-1232. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the component Web-based Management Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-522. The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to read arbitrary files on the underlying filesystem of an affected system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient access control for sensitive information that is written to an affected system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by accessing sensitive information that they are not authorized to access on an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain access to devices and other network management systems that they should not have access to.Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

It is possible to read the advisory at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2021-1232 since 11/13/2020. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1552 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Network Management Software

Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• Catalyst SD-WAN Manager

Version

• 17.2.4
• 17.2.5
• 17.2.6
• 17.2.7
• 17.2.8
• 17.2.9
• 17.2.10
• 18.2.0
• 18.3.0
• 18.3.1
• 18.3.1.1
• 18.3.3
• 18.3.3.1
• 18.3.4
• 18.3.5
• 18.3.6
• 18.3.6.1
• 18.3.7
• 18.3.8
• 18.4.0
• 18.4.0.1
• 18.4.1
• 18.4.3
• 18.4.4
• 18.4.5
• 18.4.302
• 18.4.303
• 18.4.501_ES
• 19.0.0
• 19.0.1a
• 19.1.0
• 19.2.0
• 19.2.097
• 19.2.098
• 19.2.099
• 19.2.1
• 19.2.2
• 19.2.3
• 19.2.31
• 19.2.929
• 19.3.0
• 20.1.1
• 20.1.1.1
• 20.1.2
• 20.1.12
• 20.3.1

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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