Cisco UCS Director Code Injection (CSCur02877) (Shellshock)

Critical Nessus Plugin ID 78770

Synopsis

The remote host is running a vulnerable version of Bash.

Description

According to its self-reported version, the remote host is running a version of Cisco UCS Director that could be affected by a command injection vulnerability in GNU Bash known as Shellshock, which is due to the processing of trailing strings after function definitions in the values of environment variables. This allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via environment variable manipulation depending on the configuration of the system.

Authentication on the system is required before this vulnerability can be exploited.

Solution

Apply the patch or upgrade to the version recommended in Cisco bug ID CSCur02877

See Also

https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCur02877

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/650

https://www.invisiblethreat.ca/post/shellshock/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 78770

File Name: cisco_ucs_director_CSCur02877.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 2014/10/31

Updated: 2019/11/25

Dependencies: 78767

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Critical

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-7187

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:ucs_director

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2014/10/02

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2014/09/24

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (CUPS Filter Bash Environment Variable Code Injection (Shellshock))

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-6277, CVE-2014-6278, CVE-2014-7169, CVE-2014-7187

BID: 70103, 70137, 70154, 70165, 70166

CERT: 252743

IAVA: 2014-A-0142

EDB-ID: 34860, 34765, 34766, 34777

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCur02877