Cisco Prime Security Manager GNU Bash Environment Variable Handling Command Injection (cisco-sa-20140926-bash) (Shellshock)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 78828

Synopsis

The management application installed on the remote host is affected by a command injection vulnerability known as Shellshock.

Description

According to its self-reported version number, the version of Cisco Prime Security Manager installed on the remote host is affected by a command injection vulnerability in GNU Bash known as Shellshock. The vulnerability is due to the processing of trailing strings after function definitions in the values of environment variables. This allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via environment variable manipulation depending on the configuration of the system.

Solution

Upgrade to Cisco Prime Security Manager 9.3.2.1 (9) or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?df19d2c1

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/650

https://www.invisiblethreat.ca/post/shellshock/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 78828

File Name: cisco-sa-CSCur01959-prsm.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 11/3/2014

Updated: 12/5/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-7187

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:prime_security_manager

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Cisco PRSM

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/24/2014

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 7/28/2022

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (CUPS Filter Bash Environment Variable Code Injection (Shellshock))

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-6277, CVE-2014-6278, CVE-2014-7169, CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187

BID: 70103, 70137, 70152, 70154, 70165, 70166

CERT: 252743

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20140926-bash

IAVA: 2014-A-0142

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCur01959