From: SecuriTeam <support@securiteam.com.>
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Date: 18 Aug 2005 15:02:45 +0200
Subject: [NEWS] Cisco API Privileges Escalation
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Cisco API Privileges Escalation
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SUMMARY
"Cisco Clean Access (CCA) is a software solution that can automatically
detect, isolate, and clean infected or vulnerable devices that attempt to
access your network."
Lack of authentication while invoking API methods can allow an attacker to
bypass security posture checking, change the assigned role for a user,
disconnect users and can also lead to information disclosure on configured
users.
DETAILS
Vulnerable Systems:
* CCA releases 3.3.0 to 3.3.9
* CCA releases 3.4.0 to 3.4.5
* CCA releases 3.5.0 to 3.5.3
Immune Systems:
* Any CCA release prior to 3.3.0
* CCA release 3.5.4 or later
As part of the solution, the CCA Manager offers a documented way to access
the CCA Manager API using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) over TLS
(HTTPS) protocol. The API provides methods to allow customer-written
scripts to do the following:
* Modify the list of clean machines
* Change user roles
* Get user information
* Query a given user login time
* Modify timeout values for established user sessions
* Perform some additional functions
A complete list of methods that can be invoked in this way can be found in
the CCA Manager Installation and Administration Guide, page 13-21,
available at
<http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6128/products_user_guide_list.html>;
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6128/products_user_guide_list.html
An attacker with access to the network where the CCA Manager is located
can use a custom script to invoke the API without being required to
provide authentication credentials.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in one or more of
the following:
* Machines being added to the CCA clean list, bypassing CCA checks and
being allowed access to the network regardless of their state.
* Machines being removed from the CCA clean list, preventing those
machines from accessing the network.
* Users being assigned to different roles than those configured by the
CCA administrator, possibly granting access to parts of the network that
they should not been. allowed to access.
* Information disclosure - by using the API to query the CCA Manager an
attacker could collect user names and properties of users configured in
the CCA Manager.
Vendor Status:
In order to get the fix, customers should access the CCA software patches
download page. The fix consists of two files:
* Patch-CSCsb48572.tar.gz - this file contains the fix for all affected
software versions. It will determine at runtime the CCA software version
in use and apply the appropriate fix.
* Readme-Patch-CSCsb48572.txt - this file contains instructions on how to
apply the fix to a vulnerable CCA Manager server.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The information has been provided by <mailto:psirt@cisco.com.> Cisco
Systems Product Security Incident Response Team.
The original article can be found at:
<http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050817-cca.shtml>;
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050817-cca.shtml
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