Brocade Fabric OS up to 8.2.3e Management Protocol system.sh command injection

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Brocade Fabric OS. This impacts an unknown function of the file system.sh of the component Management Protocol. The manipulation leads to command injection. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-5461. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Brocade Fabric OS. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file system.sh of the component Management Protocol. 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:

Implementation of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) operating on the Brocade 6547 (FC5022) embedded switch blade, makes internal script calls to system.sh from within the SNMP binary. An authenticated attacker could perform command or parameter injection on SNMP operations that are only enabled on the Brocade 6547 (FC5022) embedded switch. This injection could allow the authenticated attacker to issue commands as Root.

It is possible to read the advisory at support.broadcom.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-5461 since 05/29/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 8.2.3e1_pha eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Brocade

Name

• Fabric OS

Version

• 2.1.0
• 7.3.1d
• 7.4.1b
• 7.4.1d
• 7.4.2.j
• 7.4.2d
• 7.4.2f
• 7.4.2g
• 7.4.2h
• 7.4.2j
• 8.0.1b
• 8.0.2e
• 8.0.2f
• 8.1
• 8.1.0
• 8.1.2e
• 8.1.2f
• 8.1.2h
• 8.1.2j
• 8.1.2k
• 8.2.0
• 8.2.0cbn5
• 8.2.0_CBN3
• 8.2.0_CBN4
• 8.2.1
• 8.2.1b
• 8.2.1c
• 8.2.1d
• 8.2.1e
• 8.2.2
• 8.2.2a
• 8.2.2a1
• 8.2.2b
• 8.2.2c
• 8.2.2d
• 8.2.3
• 8.2.3a
• 8.2.3c
• 8.2.3d
• 8.2.3e

License

• commercial

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