Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller REST API privilege escalation

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (affected version not known). Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component REST API. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 07/04/2019 as cisco-sa-20190703-ccapic-resta as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-1889 since 12/06/2018. The attack may be launched remotely. A single authentication is necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/05/2019).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• Application Policy Infrastructure Controller

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.4

VulDB Base Score: 8.8
VulDB Temp Score: 8.4
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Class: Privilege escalation (CWE-269)
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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12/06/2018 CVE assigned
07/04/2019 +210 days Advisory disclosed
07/05/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
07/05/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateVendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco-sa-20190703-ccapic-resta
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2019-1889 (🔒)

Created: 07/05/2019 07:13 AM
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