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Cisco ASA: CVE-2018-15465: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Cisco ASA: CVE-2018-15465: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/24/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/27/2019
Modified
08/17/2023

Description

A vulnerability in the authorization subsystem of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software could allow an authenticated, but unprivileged (levels 0 and 1), remote attacker to perform privileged actions by using the web management interface. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of user privileges when using the web management interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specific HTTP requests via HTTPS to an affected device as an unprivileged user. An exploit could allow the attacker to retrieve files (including the running configuration) from the device or to upload and replace software images on the device.

Solution(s)

  • cisco-asa-update-latest

References

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