Vulnerability · Published Apr 29, 2021 · Assigned by cisco
CVE-2021-1476Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software Command Injection Vulnerability
Medium 6.7
In plain English
A medium-severity OS command injection in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 42% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system (OS) of an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of commands that are supplied by the user. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to a device and submitting crafted input for specific commands. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands on the underlying OS with root privileges. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must have valid administrator-level credentials.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Cisco | Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software | n/a |
Weakness: CWE-78 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- 20210428 Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software Command Injection Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO