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Cisco IOS XSS and XSRF Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 17795

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

On June 19, 2009, Cisco released a security response for cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery vulnerabilities in the HTTP server in IOS.

Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in attacker supplied JavaScript or HTML being injected into web pages. Further, a remote attacker could trick a user into making a maliciously crafted request.

This plugin checks if the appropriate fix for the advisory has been installed.

Solution

Apply the relevant patch referenced in the Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sr-20090114-http.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d36a2cf1

https://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500063

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 17795

File Name: cisco-sr-20090114-http.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 1/11/2012

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:ios

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/IOS/Version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/19/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3821, CVE-2009-0470

BID: 33260