Cisco IOS XR 6.1.1 access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Cisco IOS XR 6.1.1. This issue affects some unknown processing. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2016-6428. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco IOS XR 6.1.1 (Router Operating System). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. 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:

Cisco IOS XR 6.1.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary OS commands as root by leveraging admin privileges, aka Bug ID CSCva38349.

The weakness was disclosed 10/06/2016 as CSCva38349 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-6428. The attack needs to be approached locally. The successful exploitation needs a simple authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 09/22/2022). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 94354 (Cisco IOS XR Software Command-Line Interface Privilege Escalation (cisco-sa-20161005-iosxr)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (94354), SecurityFocus (BID 93416†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1036956†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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Nessus ID: 94354
Nessus Name: Cisco IOS XR Software Command-Line Interface Privilege Escalation (cisco-sa-20161005-iosxr)
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OpenVAS ID: 103403
OpenVAS Name: Cisco IOS XR Software Command-Line Interface Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: CSCva38349
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2016-6428 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-6428
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-92492
SecurityFocus: 93416
SecurityTracker: 1036956 - Cisco IOS XR User Permissions Flaw Lets Local Users Obtain Root Privileges

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108

Entryinfo

Created: 10/07/2016 13:09
Updated: 09/22/2022 15:33
Changes: 10/07/2016 13:09 (42), 05/17/2018 23:27 (21), 09/22/2022 15:27 (2), 09/22/2022 15:33 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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