Cisco Expressway Series and Cisco TelePresence VCS Improper Certificate Validation Vulnerability (cisco-sa-expressway-csrf-sqpsSfY6)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165761

Synopsis

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

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Expressway-C and Cisco TelePresence VCS devices are affected by a vulnerability in the certificate validation that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data. The vulnerability is due to a lack of validation of the SSL server certificate that an affected device receives when it establishes a connection to a Cisco Unified Communications Manager device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using a man-in-the-middle technique to intercept the traffic between the devices, and then using a self-signed certificate to impersonate the endpoint. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to view the intercepted traffic in clear text or alter the contents of the traffic.

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 IDs CSCwa25097, CSCwa25108

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b189acd2

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCwa25108

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165761

File Name: cisco-sa-expressway-CSCwa25108.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 10/7/2022

Updated: 6/16/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-20814

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/h:cisco:telepresence_video_communication_server, cpe:/a:cisco:telepresence_video_communication_server_software

Required KB Items: Cisco/TelePresence_VCS/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/5/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-20814

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-expressway-csrf-sqpsSfY6

IAVA: 2022-A-0399-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCwa25108