Cisco ASA/Firepower Threat Defense Detection Engine Ethernet Packet privilege escalation

A vulnerability was found in Cisco ASA and Firepower Threat Defense (Firewall Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some processing of the component Detection Engine. The manipulation as part of a Ethernet Packet 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 disclosed 05/03/2019 as cisco-sa-20190501-asa-ftd-bypa as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-1695 since 12/06/2018. Access to the local network is required for this attack. No form of authentication is required 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 $25k-$100k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/03/2019).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entries 134338, 134340, 134341 and 134344 are pretty similar.

Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• ASA
• Firepower Threat Defense

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.3

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.3
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Class: Privilege escalation (CWE-269)
Local: No
Remote: Partially

Availability: ?
Status: Not defined

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Current Price Estimation: ?

Threat Intelligenceinfoedit

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Remediation: ?Recommended: no mitigation known
0-Day Time: ?12/06/2018 CVE assigned
05/03/2019 +148 days Advisory disclosed
05/03/2019 +0 days VulDB entry created
05/03/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateAdvisory: cisco-sa-20190501-asa-ftd-bypa
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2019-1695 (?)
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Created: 05/03/2019 10:05 PM
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