VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2018-0296

unknown KEV
Published 2021-11-03 · Modified 2021-11-03
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.5

Description

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) contains an improper input validation vulnerability with HTTP URLs. Exploitation could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition or information disclosure.

CISA KEV

Vendor
Cisco
Product
Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
Due date
2022-05-03

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
99%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-47220 webapps hardware
Angelo Ruwantha · 2019-08-12

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance - Path Traversal (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-44956 webapps hardware
Yassine Aboukir · 2018-06-28

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance - Path Traversal

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/http/cisco_directory_traversal rank 300
Cisco ASA Directory Traversal
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

References

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

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