Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller up to 1.3 Installation privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller up to 1.3 and classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component Installation. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2016-1420. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller up to 1.3. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Installation. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The installation component on Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) devices with software before 1.3(2f) mishandles binary files, which allows local users to obtain root access via unspecified vectors, aka Bug ID CSCuz72347.

The weakness was disclosed 06/10/2016 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-1420 since 01/04/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 91730 (Cisco APIC < 1.3(2f) Binary File Installation Handling Local Privilege Escalation), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO and running in the context r.

Upgrading to version 1.3(2f) eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (91730). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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

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Nessus ID: 91730
Nessus Name: Cisco APIC < 1.3(2f) Binary File Installation Handling Local Privilege Escalation
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OpenVAS ID: 901069
OpenVAS Name: Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Binary Files Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Application Policy Infrastructure Controller 1.3(2f)

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01/04/2016 🔍
06/09/2016 +157 days 🔍
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06/21/2016 +11 days 🔍
01/14/2019 +937 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: tools.cisco.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2016-1420 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-1420
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-87812

Entryinfo

Created: 06/10/2016 09:33
Updated: 01/14/2019 08:01
Changes: 06/10/2016 09:33 (67), 01/14/2019 08:01 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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