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CWE
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Advisory Published
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CVE-2018-15465: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

First published: Mon Dec 24 2018(Updated: )

A vulnerability in the authorization subsystem of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software could allow an authenticated, but unprivileged (levels 0 and 1), remote attacker to perform privileged actions by using the web management interface. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of user privileges when using the web management interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specific HTTP requests via HTTPS to an affected device as an unprivileged user. An exploit could allow the attacker to retrieve files (including the running configuration) from the device or to upload and replace software images on the device.

Credit: ykramarz@cisco.com ykramarz@cisco.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software<9.4.4.29
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software>=9.5<9.6.4.20
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software>=9.7<9.8.3.18
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software>=9.9<9.9.2.36
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software>=9.10<9.10.1.7

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