SB2018051714 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Identity Services Engine



SB2018051714 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Identity Services Engine

Published: May 17, 2018

Security Bulletin ID SB2018051714
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 3
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Improper certificate validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0277)

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the Extensible Authentication Protocol-Transport Layer Security (EAP-TLS) certificate validation during EAP authentication due to incomplete input validation of the client EAP-TLS certificate. A remote attacker can initiate EAP authentication over TLS to the ISE with a specially crafted EAP-TLS certificate and cause the service to crash.

2) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0289)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The weakness exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


3) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0327)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The weakness exists in the web framework due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.