Cisco ESA/WSA/SMA 8.5.5-280 Service Account privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Cisco ESA, WSA and SMA 8.5.5-280. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Service Account. Performing a manipulation results in privileges management. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Cisco ESA, WSA and SMA 8.5.5-280. This affects some unknown functionality of the component Service Account. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was published 01/22/2015 as File 130088 (Packetstorm). It is possible to read the advisory at packetstormsecurity.com. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. A authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

A public exploit has been developed by Glafkos Charalambous and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $25k-$100k.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (100607), Exploit-DB (35887) and OSVDB (117720†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Glafkos Charalambous
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Recommended: no mitigation known
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07/09/2017 +885 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: File 130088
Status: Confirmed

GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-69015
X-Force: 100607 - Cisco Ironport ESA, WSA and SMA privilege escalation, High Risk
OSVDB: 117720

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

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Created: 02/05/2015 10:43
Updated: 07/09/2017 08:19
Changes: 02/05/2015 10:43 (45), 07/09/2017 08:19 (4)
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