Cisco Firewall Services Module up to 2.3 privilege escalation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Firewall Services Module up to 2.3 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Firewall Services Module. Such manipulation leads to privilege escalation. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2007-0968. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Firewall Services Module up to 2.3 (Firewall Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Firewall Services Module. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) before 2.3(4.7) and 3.x before 3.1(3.1) causes the access control entries (ACE) in an ACL to be improperly evaluated, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended certain ACL protections.

The bug was discovered 02/14/2007. The weakness was published 02/15/2007 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2007-0968 since 02/15/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

Upgrading to version 2.3(4.7) eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (32521), SecurityFocus (BID 22561†), OSVDB (33061†), Secunia (SA43453†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1017650†). Similar entries are available at VDB-2940, VDB-2944, VDB-35059 and VDB-35058. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.9

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VulDB Temp Score: 7.9
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privilege escalation
CWE: Unknown
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firewall Services Module 2.3(4.7)

Timelineinfo

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2007-0968 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-0968
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-35060
X-Force: 32521
SecurityFocus: 22561 - Cisco Multiple Products Multiple Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 43453 - Cisco Firewall Services Module SCCP Denial of Service Vulnerability, Less Critical
OSVDB: 33061 - Cisco Firewall Services Module ACL security bypass
SecurityTracker: 1017650
Vulnerability Center: 14306 - [cisco-sa-20070214-fwsm] Cisco FWSM Allows Remote Users to Bypass Certain ACL Protections, High
Vupen: ADV-2007-0609

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/13/2015 12:16
Updated: 07/14/2019 16:58
Changes: 03/13/2015 12:16 (62), 07/14/2019 16:58 (10)
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Cache ID: 216:089:103

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