Versa Director up to 22.1.4 NCS Service improper authorization

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Versa Director up to 22.1.4. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component NCS Service. Such manipulation leads to improper authorization. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-45208. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Furthermore, an exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Versa Director up to 22.1.4 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component NCS Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Versa Director SD-WAN orchestration platform which makes use of Cisco NCS application service. Active and Standby Directors communicate over TCP ports 4566 and 4570 to exchange High Availability (HA) information using a shared password. Affected versions of Versa Director bound to these ports on all interfaces. An attacker that can access the Versa Director could access the NCS service on port 4566 and exploit it to perform unauthorized administrative actions and perform remote code execution. Customers are recommended to follow the hardening guide. Versa Networks is not aware of any reported instance where this vulnerability was exploited. Proof of concept for this vulnerability has been disclosed by third party security researchers.

The advisory is available at security-portal.versa-networks.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-45208 since 08/23/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1548.002 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is available at support.versa-networks.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at support.versa-networks.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2024-54691). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Versa

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• Director

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• 21.2.0
• 21.2.1
• 21.2.2
• 21.2.3
• 22.1.0
• 22.1.1
• 22.1.2
• 22.1.3
• 22.1.4

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