Overview
On November 7, 2018, local time, Cisco released a security advisory to announce the remediation of two critical vulnerabilities in the Stealthwatch Management Console (SMC) and the Utility Express respectively.
Stealthwatch Management Console Authentication Bypass
CVE-2018-15394
CVSS 3.0: 9.8
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:X/RL:X/RC:X
This vulnerability is due to an insecure system configuration. An unauthorized remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass authentication and execute code with administrative privileges on an affected system.
Affected Versions
Cisco Stealthwatch Enterprise releases <= 6.10.2
Unaffected Versions
Cisco Stealthwatch Enterprise releases 6.10.3
Solution
Cisco has released new versions to fix this vulnerability. Affected users can log in to https://stealthwatch.flexnetoperations.com/ to download the updates.
For more information, see Cisco’s official security advisory at the following link:
Cisco Unity Express Arbitrary Command Execution
CVE-2018-15381
CVSS 3.0：9.8
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:X/RL:X/RC:X
This vulnerability is due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied content before such content is deserialized. An attacker could trigger this vulnerability by sending a malicious serialized Java object to the listening Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) service of an affected system, hence execution of arbitrary shell commands with root privileges.
Affected Versions
Cisco Unity Express release < 9.0.6
Unaffected Versions
Cisco Unity Express release 9.0.6
Solution
Cisco has released new versions to fix this vulnerability. Affected users can log in to https://software.cisco.com/download/navigator.html to download the updates.
For more information, see Cisco’s official security advisory at the following link:
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20181107-cue
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