Cisco Firepower Management Center DoS (cisco-sa-fmc-dos-3WymYWKh)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 142213

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Firepower Management Center is affected by a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in its host input API daemon component due to improper certificate validation. An unauthenticated, local attacker can exploit this issue, by sending a crafted data stream to the host input daemon of an affected device, to impose a DoS condition.

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 CSCvt54267

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 142213

File Name: cisco-sa-fmc-dos-3WymYWKh.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 11/2/2020

Updated: 3/31/2023

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-3557

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:firepower_management_center

Required KB Items: Settings/ParanoidReport, Host/Cisco/firepower_mc/version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/21/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-3557

CWE: 295

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-fmc-dos-3WymYWKh

IAVA: 2020-A-0488-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvt54267

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