Privilege escalation in Cisco Unified Communications Domain Manager

1) Privilege escalation

EUVDB-ID: #VU10681

Risk: High

CVSSv3.1: 8.7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0124

CWE-ID: CWE-264 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

the weakness exists due to insecure key generation during application configuration. A remote attacker can send arbitrary requests using the insecure key, bypass security protections and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

Mitigation

Update to version 11.5(2.10000.6), 11.5(1.98300.113), 11.5(1.98000.116), 10.6(2.98000.7), 10.6(2.10000.2).

Vulnerable software versions

Cisco Unified Communications Domain Manager: 10.0 - 10.6.2

External links

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180221-ucdm

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.