Cisco Identity Services Engine ERS API HTTP Request privilege escalation

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Identity Services Engine (Policy Management Software) (the affected version unknown). It has been classified as critical. This affects code of the component ERS API. The manipulation as part of a HTTP Request leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was released 05/16/2019 as cisco-sa-20190515-ise-certcrea as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-1851 since 12/06/2018. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The successful exploitation needs a single authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/16/2019).

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

Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• Identity Services Engine

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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: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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0-Day Time: ?12/06/2018 CVE assigned
05/16/2019 +161 days Advisory disclosed
05/16/2019 +0 days VulDB entry created
05/16/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateAdvisory: cisco-sa-20190515-ise-certcrea
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2019-1851 (?)

Created: 05/16/2019 02:02 PM
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