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CVE-2017-12277

A vulnerability in the Smart Licensing Manager service of the Cisco Firepower 4100 Series Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) and Firepower 9300 Security Appliance could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary commands that could be executed with root privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of certain Smart Licensing configuration parameters. An authenticated attacker could exploit the vulnerability by configuring a malicious URL within the affected feature. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. This vulnerability affects the following Cisco Firepower Security products running FX-OS code trains 1.1.3, 1.1.4, and 2.0.1 (versions 2.1.1, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2 are not affected): Firepower 4100 Series Next-Generation Firewall and Firepower 9300 Security Appliance. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvb86863.

Published

2017-11-02T16:29:00.427

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 8.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: SINGLE
  • Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact: COMPLETE
Exploitability Score

8.0

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses
  • Type: Secondary
    CWE-20
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-20
    CWE-77
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Operating System cisco firepower_extensible_operating_system ≤ 1.1.3 Yes
Operating System cisco firepower_extensible_operating_system 1.1.4 Yes
Operating System cisco firepower_extensible_operating_system 2.0.1 Yes
Hardware cisco firepower_4110_next-generation_firewall - No
Hardware cisco firepower_4120_next-generation_firewall - No
Hardware cisco firepower_4140_next-generation_firewall - No
Hardware cisco firepower_4150_next-generation_firewall - No
Hardware cisco firepower_9300_security_appliance - No
References