CVE-2021-1518

Cisco Firepower Device Manager On-Box Software Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
6.3 Medium
Published
Jul 22, 2021
Updated
Nov 7, 2024
Reserved
Nov 13, 2020

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Description

A vulnerability in the REST API of Cisco Firepower Device Manager (FDM) On-Box Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system of an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient sanitization of user input on specific REST API commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the API subsystem of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need valid low-privileged user credentials.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Lcisco

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Firepower Threat Defense SoftwareCisco
  • n/aAffected

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