Cisco Web Security Appliance 8.5.6-113/9.1.0-032/9.1.1-000/9.6.0-000 cross site scripting

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Cisco Web Security Appliance, Email Security Appliance and Content Security Management Appliance 8.5.6-113/9.1.0-032/9.1.1-000/9.6.0-000. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2015-0732. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Cisco Web Security Appliance, Email Security Appliance and Content Security Management Appliance 8.5.6-113/9.1.0-032/9.1.1-000/9.6.0-000 (Anti-Malware Software). This affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Cisco AsyncOS on the Web Security Appliance (WSA) 9.0.0-193; Email Security Appliance (ESA) 8.5.6-113, 9.1.0-032, 9.1.1-000, and 9.6.0-000; and Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) 9.1.0-033 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an unspecified parameter, aka Bug IDs CSCuu37430, CSCuu37420, CSCut71981, and CSCuv50167.

The weakness was disclosed 07/29/2015 as CSCuu37430/CSCuu37420/CSCut71981/CSCuv50167 as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2015-0732 since 01/07/2015. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (105118). The entry VDB-76830 is pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Anti-Malware Software

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• Cisco

Name

• Content Security Management Appliance
• Email Security Appliance
• Web Security Appliance

Version

• 8.5.6-113
• 9.1.0-032
• 9.1.1-000
• 9.6.0-000

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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