Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software Web Services Read-Only Path Traversal (cisco-sa-asaftd-ro-path-KJuQhB86)

high Nessus Plugin ID 139064

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

A vulnerability exists in the web services interface of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by sending a crafted HTTP request containing directory traversal character sequences to an affected device, in order to read sensitive files on the targeted system.

Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in the Cisco Security Advisory

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3f081787

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvt03598

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 139064

File Name: cisco-sa-asaftd-ro-path-KJuQhB86_direct.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: remote

Family: CISCO

Published: 7/29/2020

Updated: 4/25/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-3452

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software, cpe:/a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Exploited by Nessus: true

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/22/2020

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 5/3/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-3452

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-asaftd-ro-path-KJuQhB86

IAVA: 2020-A-0338-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvt03598