PT-2017-17288 · Cisco · Cisco Web Security Appliance

Published 2017-07-25 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-6748

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) versions prior to 10.1.1-234 Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) versions prior to 10.5.1-270

Description A vulnerability in the CLI parser could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform command injection and elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid operator-level or administrator-level credentials.

Recommendations For versions prior to 10.1.1-234, update to version 10.1.1-234 or later. For versions prior to 10.5.1-270, update to version 10.5.1-270 or later.

Fix

Special Elements Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-74

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-6748

Affected Products

Cisco Web Security Appliance

References · 5

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-6748 · Vendor Advisory
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170719-wsa2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6748 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/99918 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1038956 · Note