A vulnerability in the Cisco Industrial Ethernet Switch Device Manager...

8.3 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco Industrial Ethernet Switch Device Manager (DM) of Cisco IOS Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of authorizations for authenticated users. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to privilege level 15. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid credentials for a user account with privilege level 5 or higher. Read-only DM users are assigned privilege level 5.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ios-http-privesc-wCRd5e3

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Affected Vendor

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Affected Software

IOS

Vulnerable Versions:

15.0(2)SE8, 15.0(2)EA, 15.0(2)EA1, 15.2(2)E, 15.2(2)E1, 15.2(3)E1, 15.2(2)E2, 15.2(2)E3, 15.2(2a)E2, 15.2(3)E2, 15.2(3)E3, 15.2(2)E4, 15.2(2)E5, 15.2(3)E4, 15.2(5)E, 15.2(2)E6, 15.2(5)E1, 15.2(2)E5a, 15.2(5a)E1, 15.2(2)E7, 15.2(5)E2, 15.2(6)E, 15.2(5)E2c, 15.2(2)E8, 15.2(6)E0a, 15.2(6)E1, 15.2(6)E0c, 15.2(2)E9, 15.2(7)E, 15.2(2)E10, 15.2(6)E2a, 15.2(7)E0b, 15.2(7)E0s, 15.2(6)E3, 15.2(7)E2, 15.2(7)E3, 15.2(7)E1a, 15.2(7)E4, 15.2(8)E, 15.2(8)E1, 15.2(7)E5, 15.2(7)E6, 15.2(8)E2, 15.2(7)E7, 15.2(8)E3, 15.2(7)E8, 15.2(8)E4, 15.2(7)E9, 15.2(8)E5, 15.2(8)E6, 15.2(7)E10, 15.2(7)E11, 15.2(1)EY, 15.0(2)EK, 15.0(2)EK1, 15.2(2)EB, 15.2(2)EB1, 15.2(2)EB2, 15.2(6)EB, 15.2(2)EA, 15.2(2)EA2, 15.2(3)EA, 15.2(4)EA, 15.2(4)EA1, 15.2(2)EA3, 15.2(4)EA4, 15.2(4)EA5, 15.2(4)EA6, 15.2(4)EA7, 15.2(4)EA8, 15.2(4)EA9, 15.2(4)EA9a, 15.2(4)EC1, 15.2(4)EC2, 15.3(3)JPU