XXE attack in Cisco Secure Access Control - CVE-2018-0218

 

XXE attack in Cisco Secure Access Control - CVE-2018-0218

Published: March 10, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10902
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0218
CWE-ID: CWE-611
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc
Affected software:
Cisco Secure Access Control

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to conduct XXE attack.

The weakness exists in the web-based user interface due to improper handling of XML External Entities (XXEs) when parsing an XML file. A remote attacker can trick the administrator of an affected system to import a crafted XML file, perform XXE attack and read arbitrary data.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-0218

Update to version 5.8 patch 9.

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