CVE-2019-1859

Cisco Small Business Switches Secure Shell Certificate Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
7.2 High
Published
May 3, 2019
Updated
Nov 20, 2024
Reserved
Dec 6, 2018

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Description

A vulnerability in the Secure Shell (SSH) authentication process of Cisco Small Business Switches software could allow an attacker to bypass client-side certificate authentication and revert to password authentication. The vulnerability exists because OpenSSH mishandles the authentication process. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by attempting to connect to the device via SSH. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to access the configuration as an administrative user if the default credentials are not changed. There are no workarounds available; however, if client-side certificate authentication is enabled, disable it and use strong password authentication. Client-side certificate authentication is disabled by default.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Small Business 200 Series Smart SwitchesCisco
  • before 1.4.10.6Affected
  • before 2.5.0.78Affected

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