PT-2018-31: XXE Injection in Cisco Secure ACS Vulnerable product Cisco ACS Version: 5.8.0.8 and earlier Link: https://www.cisco.com/ Severity level Severity level: Medium Impact: Information disclosure Access Vector: Remote CVSS v3: Base Score: 5.3 Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) CVE: CVE-2018-0218 Vulnerability description The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an XXE Injection vulnerability in Cisco Secure ACS. A vulnerability in the web-based user interface of the Cisco Secure Access Control Server, due to improper handling of XML External Entities (XXEs) when parsing an XML file, could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain read access to certain information in the affected system. How to fix Use vendor's advisory: https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180307-acs1 Advisory status 01.06.2017 - Vendor gets vulnerability details 07.03.2018 - Vendor releases fixed version and details 13.12.2018 - Public disclosure Credits The vulnerability was detected by Mikhail Klyuchnikov, Yury Aleynov, Positive Research Center (Positive Technologies Company) References http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2018-31 Reports on the vulnerabilities previously discovered by Positive Research: https://www.ptsecurity.com/ https://en.securitylab.ru/lab/ About Positive Technologies Positive Technologies is a leading digital security firm with over 15 years of experience in 360° protection of critical IT systems against the most advanced cyberthreats. State-of-the-art solutions are developed at the company's research center—one of the largest in Europe. Positive Technologies experts have helped to identify and fix over 250 zero-day vulnerabilities in products from Cisco, Google, Honeywell, Huawei, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Schneider Electric, Siemens, and others, earning a reputation for world-class expertise in protection of devices and infrastructures at all scales from ATMs to nuclear power stations. Findings by Positive Technologies researchers are used for updating the MaxPatrol knowledge base and for development of security solutions including PT Application Firewall, PT Application Inspector, MaxPatrol. These products allow securing web applications, evaluating network protection, blocking attacks in real time, ensuring compliance with industry and national standards, and training security specialists. Positive Technologies is the organizer of the annual Positive Hack Days international forum and security competition.
