Privilege escalation in Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller - CVE-2017-12262
Published: November 2, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU9091
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12262
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows an adjacent attacker to gain privileged access to the target device.
The weakness exists within the firewall configuration of the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module (APIC-EM) due to incorrect firewall rule. An adjacent attacker can send traffic to the public interface to be forwarded to the internal virtual network of the APIC-EM and gain access to services listening on the internal network with elevated privileges.
The weakness exists within the firewall configuration of the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module (APIC-EM) due to incorrect firewall rule. An adjacent attacker can send traffic to the public interface to be forwarded to the internal virtual network of the APIC-EM and gain access to services listening on the internal network with elevated privileges.
Affected software
Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller
How to mitigate CVE-2017-12262
Update to version 1.5.