Cisco Firepower Management Center Software XSS (cisco-sa-fmc-xss-SfpEcvGT)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 161187

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting attack. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of user-supplied input to the web-based management interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by convincing a user to click a link designed to pass malicious input to the interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and gain access to sensitive browser-based information.

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 CSCwa40223

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9bde036c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 161187

File Name: cisco-sa-fmc-xss-SfpEcvGT.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 5/13/2022

Updated: 11/14/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-20740

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:firepower_management_center

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/firepower_mc/version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/27/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/27/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-20740

CWE: 79, 80

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-fmc-xss-SfpEcvGT

IAVA: 2022-A-0184-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCwa40223