Information disclosure in Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Device Manager - CVE-2017-3842
Published: February 15, 2017 / Updated: February 17, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU5863
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-3842
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc
Affected software:
Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Device Manager
Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Device Manager
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists in Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Device Manager (IDM) due to presence of sensitive information in HTML comments. A remote unauthenticated attacker can view HTML source code of the web interface and obtain potentially sensitive data.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-3842
The vulnerability was resolved in software release 07.3(00)C98.