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Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Smart Tunnel Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 128081

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software is affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the smart tunnel functionality of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to the root user or load a malicious library file while the tunnel is being established. For more information about these vulnerabilities.

Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCvo78789

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f51e243f

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvo78789

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 128081

File Name: cisco-sa-20190807-asa-multi.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 8/23/2019

Updated: 3/31/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1945

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/ASA, Host/Cisco/ASA/model

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/7/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1944, CVE-2019-1945

CWE: 20

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20190807-asa-multi

IAVA: 2019-A-0305-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvo78789