Cisco Secure Access Control Server 5.5/5.6 HTTP access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Secure Access Control Server 5.5/5.6. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component HTTP Handler. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2014-8027. No exploit exists. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Secure Access Control Server 5.5/5.6 (Network Management Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component HTTP Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The RBAC component in Cisco Secure Access Control System (ACS) allows remote authenticated users to obtain Network Device Administrator privileges for Create, Delete, Read, and Update operations via crafted HTTP requests, aka Bug ID CSCuq79034.

The weakness was disclosed 01/08/2015 with Cisco as CSCuq79034 as confirmed security notice (Website). The advisory is available at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-8027 since 10/08/2014. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Applying the patch 5.5 Patch 7/5.6 Patch 2 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at software.cisco.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (100558), SecurityFocus (BID 71944†), Secunia (SA62159†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1031516†). tools.cisco.com is providing further details. The entries VDB-68527 and VDB-68528 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Unproven

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Patch: 5.5 Patch 7/5.6 Patch 2

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: CSCuq79034
Organization: Cisco
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2014-8027 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-8027
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-68522
X-Force: 100558 - Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) privilege escalation, Medium Risk
SecurityFocus: 71944 - Cisco Secure Access Control Server CVE-2014-8027 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia: 62159 - Cisco Secure Access Control Server Multiple Vulnerabilities, Less Critical
SecurityTracker: 1031516 - Cisco Secure Access Control Server Lets Remote Authenticated Users Gain Elevated Privileges

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Entryinfo

Created: 01/09/2015 10:21
Updated: 07/09/2017 08:18
Changes: 01/09/2015 10:21 (61), 07/09/2017 08:18 (11)
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Cache ID: 216:6F8:103

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