Cisco Integrated Management Controller Supervisor, Cisco UCS Director, and Cisco UCS Director Express for Big Data Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Description
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) Supervisor, Cisco UCS Director, and Cisco UCS Director Express for Big Data could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to acquire a valid session token with administrator privileges, bypassing user authentication. The vulnerability is due to insufficient request header validation during the authentication process. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of malicious requests to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to use the acquired session token to gain full administrator access to the affected device.
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Affected products
4- Range: unspecified
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References
6- tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190821-imcs-ucs-authbymitrevendor-advisory
- seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Aug/36mitremailing-list
- seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/49mitremailing-list
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/154239/Cisco-UCS-IMC-Supervisor-Authentication-Bypass-Command-Injection.htmlmitre
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/154308/Cisco-UCS-Director-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlmitre
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/173531/Cisco-UCS-IMC-Supervisor-2.2.0.0-Authentication-Bypass.htmlmitre
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