PT-2021-3642 · Cisco · Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance

Published 2021-07-21 · Updated 2022-10-24 · CVE-2021-1617

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.4

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is due to insufficient input validation in the web-based management interface of Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance, allowing an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct a path traversal or command injection attack. An attacker could exploit this by using the web-based management interface to execute a command using crafted input or upload a file altered using path traversal techniques. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read and write arbitrary files or execute arbitrary commands as root on an affected system.

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

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

CWE-36

Related Identifiers

BDU:2021-03861

CVE-2021-1617

Affected Products

Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance

References · 6

• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ucsi2-dtcinj-yH5U4RSx · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2021-03861 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-1617 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-1617 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/26412 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/18553 · Telegram Post