Cisco Bug: CSCut39264 - tcp_stream allows writing to any file as root
Last Modified
Aug 06, 2018
Products (1)
- Cisco Web Security Appliance
Known Affected Releases
8.5.0-497
Description (partial)
Symptom: A vulnerability in the backend Packet Capture Utility of the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to modify contents within certain files. The vulnerability is due to insufficient write restrictions of output files to a safe directory. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by first successfully implementing a command injection attack in order to write an arbitrary output file. An exploit could allow the attacker to write to any file. Conditions: Device configured with default configuration.
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