Cisco ASA Next-Generation Firewall GNU Bash Environment Variable Handling Command Injection (cisco-sa-20140926-bash) (Shellshock)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 78827
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Synopsis
The remote security device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.Description
The remote ASA Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) host is missing a security patch. It is, therefore, affected by a command injection vulnerability in GNU Bash known as Shellshock. The vulnerability 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.Solution
Apply the relevant patch referenced in Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-20140926-bash.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?df19d2c1
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 78827
File Name: cisco-sa-CSCur01959-asa-cx.nasl
Version: 1.15
Type: local
Family: CISCO
Published: 11/3/2014
Updated: 1/31/2022
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Critical
Score: 9.5
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 8.7
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Temporal Vector: E:H/RL:OF/RC:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-7187
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/h:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance
Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/ASA-CX/Version
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2014
Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/24/2014
CISA Known Exploited Dates: 7/28/2022
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-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187