Cisco Integrated Management Controller Substring Comparison Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the web server of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to set sensitive configuration values and gain elevated privileges. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of substring comparison operations that are performed by the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the affected software. A successful exploit could allow the attacker with read-only privileges to gain administrator privileges. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2019-1907US | high8.8 | — | ||
A vulnerability in the web server of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to set sensitive configuration values and gain eleva… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- Cisco Integrated Management Controller Substring Comparison Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilityself
- Cisco Security Vulnerability Policyexternal
- considering software upgradesexternal
- Software Centerexternal
- https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/end-user-license-agreement.htmlexternal
- https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/web/tsd-cisco-worldwide-contacts.htmlexternal
- Cisco Security Advisories and Alerts pageexternal
remediations (1)
- FixedCisco Unified Computing System (Management Software)
Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability.
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