Cisco StarOS Privilege Escalation (cisco-sa-staros-privilege-esc-pyb7YTd)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 141356

Synopsis

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

Description

According to its self-reported version, the Cisco StarOS operating system on the remote Cisco ASR 5000 series router is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability due to insufficient validation of CLI commands. An authenticated, local attacker can exploit this, by sending crafted commands to the CLI, in order to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the root user on the affected device.

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 CSCvv34222

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1689477b

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvv34222

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 141356

File Name: cisco-sa-staros-privilege-esc-pyb7YTd.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 10/9/2020

Updated: 10/19/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-3602

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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:/o:cisco:asr_5000_series

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/ASR/Model, Host/Cisco/StarOS, Host/Cisco/StarOS/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/7/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/7/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-3602

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-staros-privilege-esc-pyb7YTd

IAVA: 2020-A-0451

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvv34222