Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software WebVPN XSS (cisco-sa-20191002-asa-xss)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 133046

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

A vulnerability in the Clientless SSL VPN (WebVPN) portal of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software (FTD) allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user of the web-based management interface of an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input by the web-based management interface of an affected device. An attacker can this vulnerability by persuading a user of the interface to click a crafted link. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the interface or allow the attacker to access sensitive browser-based information.

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 CSCvp33341

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?cf358a6d

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvp33341

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 133046

File Name: cisco-sa-20191002-ftd-xss.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 1/17/2020

Updated: 6/12/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12695

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:firepower, cpe:/a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Cisco Firepower Threat Defense, Host/Cisco/Firepower

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/2/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12695

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20191002-asa-xss

IAVA: 2019-A-0370

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvp33341