Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance RCE (cisco-sa-20191112-asa-ftd-lua-rce)

high Nessus Plugin ID 131228

Synopsis

The remote device is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability

Description

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Lua interpreter of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software due to insufficient restrictions on the allowed Lua function calls within the context of user-supplied Lua scripts. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the underlying Linux operating system of an affected device.

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Cisco will release a fixed version in the future. Please refer to Cisco bug ID CSCvr85295.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0e82478b

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvr85295

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 131228

File Name: cisco-sa-20191112-asa-lua-rce.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 11/22/2019

Updated: 5/15/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15992

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15992

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20191112-asa-ftd-lua-rce

IAVA: 2019-A-0425-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvr85295