Cisco Web Security Appliance CVE-2018-0428 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	105104
Class:	Design Error
CVE:	CVE-2018-0409
Remote:	No
Local:	Yes
Published:	Aug 15 2018 12:00AM
Updated:	Aug 15 2018 12:00AM
Credit:	The vendor reported this issue.
Vulnerable:	Cisco Web Security Appliance 11.5.0-FCS-000 Cisco Web Security Appliance 11.0.0-FCS-250 Cisco Web Security Appliance 10.5.0-FCS-000 Cisco Web Security Appliance 10.0.0-959
Not Vulnerable:

Cisco Web Security Appliance CVE-2018-0428 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Cisco Web Security Appliance is prone to local privilege-escalation vulnerability.

Local attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

This issue is being tracked by Cisco Bug ID CSCvj93548.

Cisco Web Security Appliance CVE-2018-0428 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any working exploits. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected]

Cisco Web Security Appliance CVE-2018-0428 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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

Cisco Web Security Appliance CVE-2018-0428 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

References:

• Cisco Homepage (Cisco)
  
• Cisco Web Security Appliance Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Cisco)