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Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2019-1867 Cisco Elastic Services Controller REST API Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Severity

High

Analysis Summary


The vulnerability is due to improper validation of API requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted request to the REST API. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary actions through the REST API with administrative privileges on an affected system.

This vulnerability affects when the REST API is enabled. The REST API is not enabled by default.

Impact

  • Bypass authentication
  • Administrative privileges

Affected Vendors

Oracle

Affected Products

  • Cisco Elastic Services Controller 4.1
  • Cisco Elastic Services Controller 4.2
  • Cisco Elastic Services Controller 4.3
  • Cisco Elastic Services Controller 4.4

Remediation

Update to fixed Cisco Elastic Services Controller version 4.5.

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