CVE-2018-15394: A vulnerability in the Stealthwatch Management Console (SMC) of Cisco Stealthwatch Enterprise could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass…

PriorityP267critical9.8CVSS 3.0

AVNACLPRNUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

4.02%

89.3th percentile

A vulnerability in the Stealthwatch Management Console (SMC) of Cisco Stealthwatch Enterprise could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary actions with administrative privileges on an affected system. The vulnerability is due to an insecure system configuration. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the targeted application. An exploit could allow the attacker to gain unauthenticated access, resulting in elevated privileges in the SMC.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
cisco	cisco_stealthwatch_enterprise	—	—
cisco	stealthwatch_enterprise	<= 6.10.2	—
cisco	stealthwatch_management	—	—

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

→Detect unauthenticated crafted HTTP requests targeting the Cisco Stealthwatch Management Console (SMC) that result in administrative privilege access — monitor for HTTP requests to SMC endpoints that bypass authentication (no valid session/credentials) yet receive privileged responses. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.09.8CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.07.5HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

vendor_cisco9.8CRITICAL

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