PT-2018-8605 · Cisco · Cisco Email Security Appliance+2

Published 2018-01-18 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2018-0095

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 Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) (affected versions not specified)

Description: A vulnerability in the administrative shell of Cisco AsyncOS could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate their privilege level and gain root access. The attacker must have a valid user credential with at least a privilege level of a guest user. This issue is due to an incorrect networking configuration at the administrative shell CLI. An attacker could exploit this by authenticating to the targeted device and issuing a set of crafted, malicious commands at the administrative shell, potentially gaining root access on the device.

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

CVE-2018-0095

Affected Products

Cisco Asyncos

Cisco Email Security Appliance

Cisco Content Security Management Appliance

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0095 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-0095 · Vendor Advisory
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180117-esasma · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1040222 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1040221 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/102729 · Note