CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-6748

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

Published: Jul 25, 2017 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
6.7
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A vulnerability in the CLI parser of the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform command injection and elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid operator-level or administrator-level credentials. Affected Products: virtual and hardware versions of Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA). More Information: CSCvd88855. Known Affected Releases: 10.1.0-204. Known Fixed Releases: 10.5.1-270 10.1.1-234.

Weakness

The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Web_security_appliance Cisco 10.0.0-232 (including) 10.0.0-232 (including)
Web_security_appliance Cisco 10.0.0-233 (including) 10.0.0-233 (including)
Web_security_appliance Cisco 10.0_base (including) 10.0_base (including)
Web_security_appliance Cisco 10.1.0 (including) 10.1.0 (including)
Web_security_appliance Cisco 10.1.0-204 (including) 10.1.0-204 (including)
Web_security_appliance Cisco 10.1.1-230 (including) 10.1.1-230 (including)
Web_security_appliance Cisco 10.5.0 (including) 10.5.0 (including)
Web_security_appliance Cisco 10.5.0-358 (including) 10.5.0-358 (including)
Web_security_appliance Cisco 11.0.0 (including) 11.0.0 (including)
Web_security_appliance Cisco 11.0.0-613 (including) 11.0.0-613 (including)
Web_security_virtual_appliance Cisco 10.0.0 (including) 10.0.0 (including)
Web_security_virtual_appliance Cisco 10.0_base (including) 10.0_base (including)
Web_security_virtual_appliance Cisco 10.1.0 (including) 10.1.0 (including)
Web_security_virtual_appliance Cisco 10.1.1 (including) 10.1.1 (including)
Web_security_virtual_appliance Cisco 10.1_base (including) 10.1_base (including)
Web_security_virtual_appliance Cisco 10.5.1 (including) 10.5.1 (including)
Web_security_virtual_appliance Cisco 10.5_base (including) 10.5_base (including)
Web_security_virtual_appliance Cisco 11.0.0 (including) 11.0.0 (including)
Web_security_virtual_appliance Cisco 11.0_base (including) 11.0_base (including)

Potential Mitigations

References