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Cisco Patches Critical Flaw in Cloud Services Platform

Cisco informed customers on Wednesday that it has patched critical and high severity vulnerabilities in several of its products, including the Cloud Services Platform (CSP), the Firepower Extensible Operating System (FXOS) and NX-OS software, and some Small Business IP phones.

Cisco informed customers on Wednesday that it has patched critical and high severity vulnerabilities in several of its products, including the Cloud Services Platform (CSP), the Firepower Extensible Operating System (FXOS) and NX-OS software, and some Small Business IP phones.

The most serious of the patched flaws is CVE-2017-12251, a critical unauthorized access issue affecting CSP 2100, a platform that helps organizations deploy Cisco and third-party network virtual services.

Chris Day, senior security consultant at MWR InfoSecurity, discovered that the platform’s web console is affected by a flaw that allows an authenticated attacker to remotely interact with the services and virtual machines on a CSP device.

“The vulnerability is due to weaknesses in the generation of certain authentication mechanisms in the URL of the web console. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by browsing to one of the hosted VMs’ URLs in Cisco CSP and viewing specific patterns that control the web application’s mechanisms for authentication control,” Cisco said in its advisory.

The vulnerability affects CSP 2100 versions 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.2.0, 2.2.1 and 2.2.2. The issue has been resolved with the release of version 2.2.3, and Cisco says it’s not aware of any attacks exploiting the flaw.

Cisco also informed customers of a high severity denial-of-service (DoS) flaw affecting the authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) implementation of the FXOS and NX-OS software.

A remote, unauthenticated hacker can cause affected devices to reload by launching a brute-force attack on their login system.

The security hole (CVE-2017-3883) affects Firepower appliances, Nexus and Multilayer Director switches, and some Unified Computing System products. Both patches and workarounds have been made available by Cisco.

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As for Small Business IP phones, two different DoS vulnerabilities have been found by Cisco during internal testing. One of the security holes, CVE-2017-12260, affects the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) functionality in Cisco Small Business SPA50x, SPA51x and SPA52x series IP phones, while the other, CVE-2017-12259, impacts the same functionality in only SPA51x series phones.

Both vulnerabilities allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a DoS condition by sending specially crafted SIP requests to the targeted device.

Cisco has also warned customers that many of its products are vulnerable to the recently disclosed Wi-Fi attack method known as KRACK. Similar to other affected vendors, the networking giant has already started releasing patches for vulnerable devices.

Related: Cisco Warns of Serious Flaws in IOS Software

Related: Unpatched Cisco Autonomic Networking Flaws Disclosed at Black Hat

Related: Cisco Fixes Critical Flaws in Ultra, Elastic Services Products

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Eduard Kovacs (@EduardKovacs) is a managing editor at SecurityWeek. He worked as a high school IT teacher for two years before starting a career in journalism as Softpedia’s security news reporter. Eduard holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial informatics and a master’s degree in computer techniques applied in electrical engineering.

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