Cross-site request forgery in Cisco IOS XE and Cisco IOS - CVE-2019-16009

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Cross-site request forgery in Cisco IOS XE and Cisco IOS - CVE-2019-16009

Published: January 9, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU24161
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16009
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin in the web UI. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website.


Affected software

Cisco IOS XE
Cisco IOS

How to mitigate CVE-2019-16009

Install updates from vendor's website.

Cisco IOS XE - update to 16.1.1
Cisco IOS - update to 16.1.1

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