Cisco Application Control Engine prior A4(2.3), A5(1.1) race condition

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Cisco Application Control Engine. This issue affects some unknown processing. This manipulation causes race condition. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2012-3063. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Cisco Application Control Engine. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) before A4(2.3) and A5 before A5(1.1), when multicontext mode is enabled, does not properly share a management IP address among multiple contexts, which allows remote authenticated administrators to bypass intended access restrictions in opportunistic circumstances, and read or modify configuration settings, via a login attempt to a context, aka Bug ID CSCts30631, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3058.

The weakness was released 06/20/2012 with Cisco as cisco-sa-20120620-ace as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2012-3063 since 05/30/2012. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 69914 (Cisco Application Control Engine Login Administrator IP Address Overlap (cisco-sa-20120620-ace)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO.

Upgrading to version A4(2.3), A5(1.1) eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (76460), Tenable (69914), SecurityFocus (BID 54129†), OSVDB (83102†) and Secunia (SA49646†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Race condition
CWE: CWE-362
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Nessus ID: 69914
Nessus Name: Cisco Application Control Engine Login Administrator IP Address Overlap (cisco-sa-20120620-ace)
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Upgrade: Application Control Engine A4(2.3), A5(1.1)

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco-sa-20120620-ace
Organization: Cisco
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2012-3063 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-3063
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-5581

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X-Force: 76460
SecurityFocus: 54129 - Cisco Application Control Engine Administrator IP Address Overlap Security Bypass Vulnerability
Secunia: 49646 - Cisco ACE Products Security Bypass Weakness, Not Critical
OSVDB: 83102
SecurityTracker: 1027188 - Cisco Application Control Engine IP Address Overlap May Let Remote Authenticated Administrators Login to the Incorrect Context
Vulnerability Center: 35433 - [cisco-sa-20120620-ace] Cisco Application Control Engine Multicontext Mode Administrators Security Bypass Vulnerability, High

Entryinfo

Created: 06/25/2012 18:14
Updated: 03/25/2021 18:04
Changes: 06/25/2012 18:14 (70), 04/14/2017 13:40 (12), 03/25/2021 18:04 (3)
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