Cisco ASA Next-Generation Firewall OpenSSL Alternative Chains Certificate Forgery (cisco-sa-20150710-openssl)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86104

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VPR Score: 3.3

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 certificate validation bypass vulnerability in the bundled version of OpenSSL. The vulnerability exists due to a flaw in the X509_verify_cert() function in x509_vfy.c that is triggered when locating alternate certificate chains when the first attempt to build such a chain fails. A remote attacker can exploit this, by using a valid leaf certificate as a certificate authority (CA), to issue invalid certificates that will bypass authentication.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCuv26213.

See Also

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20150709.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?3b4e4a60

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86104

File Name: cisco-sa-CSCuv26213-asa-cx.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 9/23/2015

Updated: 11/22/2019

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Medium

VPR Score: 3.3

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1793

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:h:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/ASA-CX/Version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/15/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/9/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1793

BID: 75652

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCuv26213

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20150710-openssl