PT-2019-3976 · Cisco · Cisco Web Security Appliance

Published 2019-11-06 · Updated 2020-10-01 · CVE-2019-15969

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) (affected versions not specified)

Description A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against a user of the interface of an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input by the web-based management interface of an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user of the interface to click a crafted link. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary script or HTML code in the context of the interface, which could allow the attacker to gain access to sensitive, browser-based information.

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

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

BDU:2019-04507

CVE-2019-15969

Affected Products

Cisco Web Security Appliance

References · 5

• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20191106-wsa-xss · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15969 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-04507 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-15969 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/14838 · Telegram Post