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CVE-2019-1936
published 2019-08-21

CVE-2019-1936: A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) Supervisor, Cisco UCS Director, and Cisco UCS Director…

PriorityP266high7.2CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRHUINSUCHIHAH
EXPLOIT
EPSS
39.48%
98.5th percentile
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) Supervisor, Cisco UCS Director, and Cisco UCS Director Express for Big Data could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux shell as the root user. Exploitation of this vulnerability requires privileged access to an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input by the web-based management interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to the web-based management interface with administrator privileges and then sending a malicious request to a certain part of the interface.

Affected

16 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
ciscocisco_unified_computing_system_director>= unspecified < 6.7.3.06.7.3.0
ciscointegrated_management_controller_supervisor
ciscointegrated_management_controller_supervisor2.2.0.0 – 2.2.0.6
ciscointegrated_management_controller_supervisor_cisco_ucs_director_and_cisco_ucs_dir
ciscoucs_director
ciscoucs_director
ciscoucs_director
ciscoucs_director
ciscoucs_director
ciscoucs_director
ciscoucs_director
ciscoucs_director_express_for_big_data
ciscoucs_director_express_for_big_data
ciscoucs_director_express_for_big_data
ciscoucs_director_express_for_big_data
ciscoucs_director_express_for_big_data

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

url/app/ui/ClientServlet?apiName=GetUserInfo
url/app/ui/login.jsp
cookieJSESSIONID
otherX-Starship-UserSession-Key
otherX-Starship-Request-Key
port443
  • Detect authentication bypass (CVE-2019-1937, chained with CVE-2019-1936) by monitoring HTTP requests to /app/ui/ClientServlet that simultaneously carry both X-Starship-UserSession-Key and X-Starship-Request-Key headers alongside a JSESSIONID cookie — this header combination is the bypass trigger.
  • Alert on HTTP responses from /app/ui/ClientServlet that return a JSON body containing '"loginName":"admin"' following a request that did not go through a normal login flow — this indicates a successful authentication bypass.
  • Monitor for command injection exploitation via the password change form in the web-based management interface, executed as root on the underlying Linux shell.
  • Flag use of the Metasploit module targeting Cisco UCS Director RCE (linux/http/cisco_ucs_rce) against UCS Director versions 6.6.0 and 6.7.0.
  • Detect SSH login attempts using a known default unprivileged user credential on the Cisco UCS Director virtual appliance.
  • Inspect the AuthenticationFilter class (com.cloupia.client.web.auth.AuthenticationFilter) for the isStarshipRequest() code path that creates an unauthenticated admin session — presence of this logic in deployed JARs indicates a vulnerable version.
  • ·The authentication bypass (CVE-2019-1937) is a prerequisite chained with CVE-2019-1936 in the Metasploit module; the command injection alone requires authenticated administrator access per Cisco's advisory.
  • ·The Metasploit module was only tested against Cisco UCS Director 6.6.0 and 6.7.0; IMC Supervisor and UCS Director Express for Big Data are listed as affected by Cisco but were not independently verified by the researcher.
  • ·In some exploitation scenarios the server authenticates the original JSESSIONID cookie rather than issuing a new one, but the result is equivalent — the existing cookie gains admin privileges.

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.2HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv3.07.2HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv2.09.0CRITICALAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
vendor_cisco7.2HIGH
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