PT-2018-2129 · Cisco · Cisco Wireless Lan Controller+1

Published 2018-10-17 · Updated 2023-04-26 · CVE-2018-0417

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) Software (affected versions not specified)

Description A vulnerability in TACACS authentication could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform certain operations within the GUI that are not normally available to that user on the CLI. The vulnerability is due to incorrect parsing of a specific TACACS attribute received in the TACACS response from the remote TACACS server. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating via TACACS to the GUI on the affected device. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to create local user accounts with administrative privileges on an affected WLC and execute other commands that are not allowed from the CLI and should be prohibited.

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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

BDU:2019-00081

CVE-2018-0417

Affected Products

Cisco Wireless Lan Controller

Cisco Wls

References · 8

• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20181017-wlc-gui-privesc · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-0417 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-00081 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0417 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/105667 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/13362 · Telegram Post
• https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2018-0417 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1041924 · Note