Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106972
Category:	CISCO
Title:	Cisco Web Security Appliance Authenticated Command Injection and Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Summary:	A vulnerability in the CLI parser of the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA);could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform command injection and elevate privileges to root. The;attacker must authenticate with valid operator-level or administrator-level credentials.
Description:	Summary: A vulnerability in the CLI parser of the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform command injection and elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid operator-level or administrator-level credentials. Vulnerability Insight: The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the CLI parser. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the affected device and performing command injection over the CLI. Vulnerability Impact: An exploit could allow the attacker to escape from the CLI subshell and execute system-level commands on the underlying operating system as root. Solution: See the referenced vendor advisory for a solution. CVSS Score: 7.2 CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-6748 BugTraq ID: 99918 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99918 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038956
Copyright	Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG

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