PT-2013-5581 · Cisco · Cisco Intrusion Prevention System

Published 2013-09-19 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2013-5497

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the authentication manager process in the web framework, which does not properly handle user tokens. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an intermittent MainApp hang, via a crafted management-interface connection request.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Improper Authentication

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-287

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-5497

Affected Products

Cisco Intrusion Prevention System

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-5497 · Security Note
• http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=30913 · Vendor Advisory
• http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-5497 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/62517 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1029057 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/97525 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87280 · Note