Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance CVE-2018-0242 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	103932
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2018-0242
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Apr 18 2018 12:00AM
Updated:	Apr 18 2018 12:00AM
Credit:	Cisco.
Vulnerable:	Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Firewalls 9.8(2) Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Firewalls 9.8(1) Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Firewalls 9.6(3) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 0
Not Vulnerable:

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance CVE-2018-0242 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

This issue is being tracked by Cisco Bug ID CSCvg33985.

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance CVE-2018-0242 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Attackers can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting victim to follow a malicious URI.

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance CVE-2018-0242 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance CVE-2018-0242 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Homepage (Cisco)
  
• Cisco Homepage (Cisco )
  
• cisco-sa-20180418-asawvpn: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance WebVPN Cross-Site (Cisco)