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CVE-2017-3873
published 2017-05-16

CVE-2017-3873: A vulnerability in the Plug-and-Play (PnP) subsystem of the Cisco Aironet 1800, 2800, and 3800 Series Access Points running a Lightweight Access Point (AP) or…

PriorityP345high7.5CVSS 3.0
AVAACHPRNUINSUCHIHAH
EPSS
0.74%
50.1th percentile
A vulnerability in the Plug-and-Play (PnP) subsystem of the Cisco Aironet 1800, 2800, and 3800 Series Access Points running a Lightweight Access Point (AP) or Mobility Express image could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of PnP server responses. The PnP feature is only active while the device does not contain a configuration, such as a first time boot or after a factory reset has been issued. An attacker with the ability to respond to PnP configuration requests from the affected device can exploit the vulnerability by returning malicious PnP responses. If a Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller - Enterprise Module (APIC-EM) is available on the network, the attacker would need to exploit the issue in the short window before a valid PnP response was received. If successful, the attacker could gain the ability to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the underlying operating system of the device. Cisco has confirmed that the only vulnerable software version is 8.3.102.0. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvb42386.

Affected

2 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
ciscoaironet_1800_2800_and_3800_series_access_points_plug-and-play
ciscoaironet_access_point_firmware

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.5HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv2.07.9HIGHAV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
vendor_cisco7.5HIGH
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