Information disclosure in Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager

1) Insufficiently protected credentials

EUVDB-ID: #VU56246

Risk: Low

CVSSv3.1: 4.8 [CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-34733

CWE-ID: CWE-522 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to sensitive information is not sufficiently secured when it is stored on the system. A local user can create forged authentication requests and gain unauthorized access to the affected system.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Cisco Prime Infrastructure: 3.7 - 3.7.1

Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) Manager: 1.2.0 - 4.1.1

External links

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-prime-info-disc-nTU9FJ2

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.

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.

The attacker would have to login to the system and perform certain actions in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

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