SB2023021590 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Nexus Dashboard
Published: February 15, 2023
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-20053)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability 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.
2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-20014)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper processing of DNS requests. A remote attacker can send a continuous stream of DNS requests to an affected device and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-nexus-dashboard-xss-xc5BcgsQ
- https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCwd35178
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ndb-dnsdos-bYscZOsu
- https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCwb74816