Authentication bypass in RSA Authentication Agent - CVE-2017-14377

 

Authentication bypass in RSA Authentication Agent - CVE-2017-14377

Published: November 29, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9436
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14377
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication on the target system.

The weakness exists in RSA Authentication Agent for Web for Apache Web Server due to input validation flaw. A remote attacker can supply specially crafted data and gain access to resources ostensibly protected by the target agent.


Affected software

RSA Authentication Agent

How to mitigate CVE-2017-14377

Install update from vendor's website (8.0.1 Build 618).


External References

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