Cisco Web Security Appliance HTTP Header Injection Vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 133406

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) is affected by a HTTP Header Injection vulnerability. Please see the included Cisco BIDs and the Cisco Security Advisory for more information.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-20200122-wsa-sma-header-inject.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7ceb28f0

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvp16724

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvq04931

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 133406

File Name: cisco-sa-20200122-wsa-sma-header-inject.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 1/31/2020

Updated: 5/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.6

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-2020-3117

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:web_security_appliance, cpe:/a:cisco:web_security_appliance, cpe:/h:cisco:web_security_appliance, cpe:/o:cisco:asyncos

Required KB Items: Host/AsyncOS/Cisco Web Security Appliance/DisplayVersion, Host/AsyncOS/Cisco Web Security Appliance/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/22/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/22/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-3117

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20200122-wsa-sma-header-inject

IAVA: 2020-A-0045

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvp16724, CSCvq04931