Protection mechanism failure in Cisco AMP for Endpoints - CVE-2018-0237

 

Protection mechanism failure in Cisco AMP for Endpoints - CVE-2018-0237

Published: April 23, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU12093
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0237
CWE-ID: CWE-693
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc
Affected software:
Cisco AMP for Endpoints

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions.

The weakness exists in the file type detection mechanism due to the software relies on only the file extension for detecting DMG files. A remote attacker can send a DMG file with a nonstandard extension to a device that is running an affected AMP for Endpoints macOS Connector and bypass configured malware detection.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-0237

Install update from vendor's website.

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