Cisco Web Security Appliance CVE-2015-0693 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:74058

Info

Cisco Web Security Appliance CVE-2015-0693 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 74058
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2015-0693
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Apr 13 2015 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 13 2015 12:00AM
Credit: The vendor reported this issue.
Vulnerable: Cisco Web Security Appliance 8.5
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Cisco Web Security Appliance CVE-2015-0693 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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

A local attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary Python code with elevated privileges. Successful exploits may result in complete system compromise.

This issue being tracked by Cisco Bug ID CSCut39259.

Exploit / POC

Cisco Web Security Appliance CVE-2015-0693 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Attackers can use standard, readily available tools to exploit this issue.

Solution / Fix

Cisco Web Security Appliance CVE-2015-0693 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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

References

Cisco Web Security Appliance CVE-2015-0693 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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