Cisco Nexus 1000V NX-OS CVE-2013-1212 SSL Certificate Validation Security Bypass Vulnerability

BID:60225

Info

Cisco Nexus 1000V NX-OS CVE-2013-1212 SSL Certificate Validation Security Bypass Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 60225
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2013-1212
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 30 2013 12:00AM
Updated: May 31 2013 07:24AM
Credit: Felix 'FX' Lindner, Recurity Labs GmbH
Vulnerable: Cisco Nexus 1000V 0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Cisco Nexus 1000V NX-OS CVE-2013-1212 SSL Certificate Validation Security Bypass Vulnerability

Cisco Nexus 1000V running on NX-OS is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this issue to perform man-in-the-middle attacks and perform certain unauthorized actions, which will aid in further attacks.

This issue is being tracked by Cisco Bug ID CSCud14837.

Exploit / POC

Cisco Nexus 1000V NX-OS CVE-2013-1212 SSL Certificate Validation Security Bypass Vulnerability

An attacker can use readily available tools to exploit this issue.

Solution / Fix

Cisco Nexus 1000V NX-OS CVE-2013-1212 SSL Certificate Validation Security Bypass Vulnerability

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

References

Cisco Nexus 1000V NX-OS CVE-2013-1212 SSL Certificate Validation Security Bypass Vulnerability

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