Cisco Identity Services Engine Privilege Escalation (cisco-sa-ise-priv-esc-UwqPrBM3)

high Nessus Plugin ID 153947

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Synopsis

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

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Identity Services Engine is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability in its REST API component due to insufficient input validation on specific endpoints. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to gain root access to the system.

Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information.

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

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCvy11976

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 153947

File Name: cisco-sa-ise-priv-esc-UwqPrBM3.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 10/8/2021

Updated: 3/8/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-1594

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/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:/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: 10/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-1594

CWE: 266

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-ise-priv-esc-UwqPrBM3

IAVA: 2021-A-0455-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvy11976

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