CVE-2019-15956

Cisco Web Security Appliance Unauthorized Device Reset Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Nov 26, 2019
Updated
Nov 20, 2024
Reserved
Sep 6, 2019

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Description

A vulnerability in the web management interface of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform an unauthorized system reset on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper authorization controls for a specific URL in the web management interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device. A successful exploit could have a twofold impact: the attacker could either change the administrator password, gaining privileged access, or reset the network configuration details, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition. In both scenarios, manual intervention is required to restore normal operations.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.08.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hcisco

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA)Cisco
  • before n/aAffected

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