Cisco Ethernet Subscriber Solution Engine up to 2.12 Command Line Interface privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Ethernet Subscriber Solution Engine up to 2.12. It has been rated as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Command Line Interface. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2006-1961. In addition, an exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Ethernet Subscriber Solution Engine up to 2.12 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Command Line Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Cisco CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) and WLSE Express before 2.13, Hosting Solution Engine (HSE) and User Registration Tool (URT) before 20060419, and all versions of Ethernet Subscriber Solution Engine (ESSE) and CiscoWorks2000 Service Management Solution (SMS) allow local users to gain Linux shell access via shell metacharacters in arguments to the "show" command in the application s command line interface (CLI), aka bug ID CSCsd21502 (WLSE), CSCsd22861 (URT), and CSCsd22859 (HSE). NOTE: other issues might be addressed by the Cisco advisory.

The bug was discovered 04/19/2006. The weakness was presented 04/19/2006 by Adam Pointon and Mathieu Pepin (Website). The advisory is shared at cisco.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-1961 since 04/21/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but an exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading to version 2.13 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (25884), SecurityFocus (BID 17609†), OSVDB (24813†), Secunia (SA19736†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1015965†). See VDB-29812 for similar entry. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Ethernet Subscriber Solution Engine 2.13

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Researcher: Adam Pointon, Mathieu Pepin
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-1961 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-1961
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-29813
X-Force: 25884
SecurityFocus: 17609 - Multiple Linux-Based Cisco Products Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia: 19736 - Cisco WLSE Privilege Escalation and Cross-Site Scripting, Less Critical
OSVDB: 24813 - Cisco Multiple Products show Command Local Privilege Escalation
SecurityTracker: 1015965
Vulnerability Center: 11302 - [cisco-sa-20060419-wlse] Cisco WLSE, HSE, URT, ESSE \x26 SMS Local Privileges Escalation via CLI, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-1434

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 06/17/2019 11:06
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (75), 06/17/2019 11:06 (1)
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