CVE-2019-16028: Cisco Firepower Management Center Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

First published: Wed Sep 23 2020(Updated: )

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary actions with administrative privileges on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication responses from an external authentication server. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP requests to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain administrative access to the web-based management interface of the affected device.

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

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