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Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance XSS (cisco-sa-asaftd-xss-webui-gQLSFyPM)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 155676
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Synopsis
The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patchDescription
According to its self-reported version, Cisco ASA Software is affected by a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in its web services interface due to improper validation of user-supplied input before returning it to users. An unauthenticated, 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.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 CSCvy20504See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?327076bb
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewErp.x?alertId=ERP-74773
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 155676
File Name: cisco-sa-asaftd-xss-webui-gQLSFyPM-asa.nasl
Version: 1.8
Type: local
Family: CISCO
Published: 11/23/2021
Updated: 6/7/2022
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.0
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.4
Temporal Score: 4.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-1444
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.1
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:/a:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2021
Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2021
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-1444