Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software privilege escalation | CVE-2022-20759
NAME
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software privilege escalation
- Platforms Affected:
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software
Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software - Risk Level:
8.8 - Exploitability:
Unproven - Consequences:
Gain Privileges
DESCRIPTION
could allow a remote authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by improper separation of authentication and authorization scopes. By sending a specially-crafted HTTPS messages to the web services interface, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain privilege level 15 access to the web management interface.
CVSS 3.0 Information
- Privileges Required: Low
- User Interaction: None
- Scope: Unchanged
- Access Vector: Network
- Access Complexity: Low
- Confidentiality Impact: High
- Integrity Impact: High
- Availability Impact: High
- Remediation Level: Official Fix
MITIGATION
Refer to Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-asaftd-mgmt-privesc-BMFMUvye for patch, upgrade or suggested workaround information. See References.
- Reference Link:
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-mgmt-privesc-BMFMUvye - Reference Link:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-20759
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