CiscoWorks Common Services HTTP Response Splitting

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58950

Synopsis

The network management framework on the remote web server has an HTTP response splitting vulnerability.

Description

The version of CiscoWorks Common Services on the remote host has an HTTP response splitting vulnerability. Common Services is a framework included with several Cisco products. Input to the 'URL' parameter of Autologin.jsp is not properly sanitized.

A remote attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into making a malicious request, resulting in the injection of HTTP headers, modification of the HTTP response body, or splitting the HTTP response into multiple responses.

Solution

Refer to the referenced Cisco Bug IDs for more information.

See Also

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2012-19

http://www.nessus.org/u?9a4f1b73

http://www.nessus.org/u?4da1bafd

http://www.nessus.org/u?46462822

http://www.nessus.org/u?3749073d

http://www.nessus.org/u?af05872e

http://www.nessus.org/u?2d0fd883

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58950

File Name: ciscoworks_response_splitting.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 5/1/2012

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:ciscoworks_common_services

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/19/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4237

BID: 53439