CVE-2018-15465

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 8.1 High
Published: Dec 24, 2018
Updated: Nov 26, 2024
Reserved: Aug 17, 2018

Description

A vulnerability in the authorization subsystem of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software could allow an authenticated, but unprivileged (levels 0 and 1), remote attacker to perform privileged actions by using the web management interface. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of user privileges when using the web management interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specific HTTP requests via HTTPS to an affected device as an unprivileged user. An exploit could allow the attacker to retrieve files (including the running configuration) from the device or to upload and replace software images on the device.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	8.1 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	cisco

Weaknesses

CWE-285

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) SoftwareCisco	n/aAffected

References

106256vdb-entry
https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2018-46
20181219 Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilityvendor-advisory

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