PT-2018-8621 · Cisco · Cisco Staros

Published 2018-01-18 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2018-0115

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 StarOS (affected versions not specified)

Description: A vulnerability in the CLI of the Cisco StarOS operating system could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on an affected host operating system. The issue is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input, which could be exploited by injecting malicious command arguments into a vulnerable CLI command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. The attacker would need to authenticate to the affected system using valid administrator credentials.

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

OS Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-78

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-0115

Affected Products

Cisco Staros

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0115 · Security Note
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180117-staros · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/102788 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1040239 · Note