Cisco Identity Services Engine XSS (cisco-sa-ise-xxs-mf5cbYx5)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 141354

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in Cisco Identity Services Engine web-based management interface due to improper validation of user-supplied input before returning it to users. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by convincing a user to click a specially crafted URL, to execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session.

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

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-ise-xxs-mf5cbYx5

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c0dddbb6

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvu33884

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 141354

File Name: cisco-sa-ise-xxs-mf5cbYx5.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 10/9/2020

Updated: 9/22/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-3589

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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:/h:cisco:identity_services_engine, cpe:/a:cisco:identity_services_engine, cpe:/a:cisco:identity_services_engine_software

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/ISE/version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/7/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/7/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-3589

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-ise-xxs-mf5cbYx5

IAVA: 2020-A-0450-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvu33884