#VU15413 Privilege escalation in Cisco Wireless LAN Controller - CVE-2018-15395
Published: October 18, 2018
Cisco Wireless LAN Controller
Cisco Systems, Inc
Description
The vulnerability allows an adjacent authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists in the authentication and authorization checking mechanisms of Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) Software due to the dynamic assignment of Security Group Tags (SGTs) during a wireless roam from one Service Set Identifier (SSID) to another within the Cisco TrustSec domain. An adjacent attacker can attempt to acquire an SGT from other SSIDs within the domain and gain privileged network access that should be prohibited under normal circumstances.