Cisco Web Security Appliance Command-Line Interface command injection

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Web Security Appliance (Anti-Malware Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some processing of the component Command-Line Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability (Command Injection). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-88. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was published 05/03/2019 as cisco-sa-20190501-wsa-privesc as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-1816 since 12/06/2018. The attack needs to be approached locally. The successful exploitation requires a single authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $25k-$100k (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.

Similar entries are available at 134361.

Vendor

• Cisco

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• Web Security Appliance

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.8

VulDB Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Temp Score: 7.8
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Class: Privilege escalation / Command Injection (CWE-88)
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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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-wsa-privesc
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2019-1816 (?)
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Created: 05/03/2019 10:16 PM
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