Cisco Web Security Appliance

On Feb 15, 2023, the following vulnerability in the ClamAV scanning library was disclosed: A vulnerability in the HFS+ partition file parser of ClamAV versions 1.0.0 and earlier, 0.105.1 and earlier, and 0.103.7 and earlier could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability is due to a missing buffer size check that may result in a heap buffer overflow write. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted HFS+ partition file to be scanned by ClamAV on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the ClamAV scanning process, or else crash the process, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. For a description of this vulnerability, see the ClamAV blog ["https://blog.clamav.net/"].

A vulnerability in the web interface of the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform command injection and elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid administrator credentials. Affected Products: Cisco AsyncOS Software 10.0 and later for WSA on both virtual and hardware appliances. More Information: CSCvd88862. Known Affected Releases: 10.1.0-204. Known Fixed Releases: 10.5.1-270 10.1.1-235.

The web framework in IronPort AsyncOS on Cisco Web Security Appliance devices before 7.1.3-013, 7.5 before 7.5.0-838, and 7.7 before 7.7.0-550; Email Security Appliance devices before 7.1.5-104, 7.3 before 7.3.2-026, 7.5 before 7.5.2-203, and 7.6 before 7.6.3-019; and Content Security Management Appliance devices before 7.2.2-110, 7.7 before 7.7.0-213, and 7.8 and 7.9 before 7.9.1-102 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via crafted command-line input in a URL, aka Bug IDs CSCzv85726, CSCzv44633, and CSCzv24579.

The web framework in IronPort AsyncOS on Cisco Web Security Appliance devices before 7.1.3-013, 7.5 before 7.5.0-838, and 7.7 before 7.7.0-550 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via crafted command-line input in a URL sent over IPv4, aka Bug ID CSCzv69294.

Cisco Web Security Appliance Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The admin web interface in Cisco AsyncOS 8.x before 8.0.8-113, 8.1.x and 8.5.x before 8.5.3-051, 8.6.x and 8.7.x before 8.7.0-171-LD, and 8.8.x before 8.8.0-085 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote authenticated users to obtain root privileges via crafted certificate-generation arguments, aka Bug ID CSCus83445.

Cisco Web Security Appliance Unauthorized Device Reset Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the web proxy functionality of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Web Security Appliances could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to exhaust system memory and cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected system. The vulnerability exists because the affected software improperly manages memory resources for TCP connections to a targeted device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by establishing a high number of TCP connections to the data interface of an affected device via IPv4 or IPv6. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust system memory, which could cause the system to stop processing new connections and result in a DoS condition. System recovery may require manual intervention. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf36610.

Cisco Web Security Appliance Malformed Request Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco Web Security Appliance HTTPS Certificate Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco AsyncOS before 8.5.7-042, 9.x before 9.1.0-032, 9.1.x before 9.1.1-023, and 9.5.x and 9.6.x before 9.6.0-042 on Email Security Appliance (ESA) devices; before 9.1.0-032, 9.1.1 before 9.1.1-005, and 9.5.x before 9.5.0-025 on Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) devices; and before 7.7.0-725 and 8.x before 8.0.8-113 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a flood of TCP packets, aka Bug IDs CSCus79774, CSCus79777, and CSCzv95795.

The management GUI in the web framework in IronPort AsyncOS on Cisco Web Security Appliance devices before 7.1.3-013, 7.5 before 7.5.0-838, and 7.7 before 7.7.0-602; Email Security Appliance devices before 7.1.5-106 and 7.3, 7.5, and 7.6 before 7.6.3-019; and Content Security Management Appliance devices before 7.9.1-102 and 8.0 before 8.0.0-404 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a series of (1) HTTP or (2) HTTPS requests to a management interface, aka Bug IDs CSCzv58669, CSCzv63329, and CSCzv78669.

Cisco AsyncOS before 8.5.3-069 and 8.6 through 8.8 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices mishandles memory allocation for HTTP requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (proxy-process reload) via a crafted request, aka Bug ID CSCuu02529.

Cisco AsyncOS 8.x before 8.0.8-113, 8.1.x and 8.5.x before 8.5.3-051, 8.6.x and 8.7.x before 8.7.0-171-LD, and 8.8.x before 8.8.0-085 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via multiple file-range requests, aka Bug ID CSCur39155.

The proxy-cache implementation in Cisco AsyncOS 8.0.x before 8.0.7-151, 8.1.x and 8.5.x before 8.5.2-004, 8.6.x and 8.7.x before 8.7.0-171-LD, and 8.8.x before 8.8.0-085 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via multiple proxy connections, aka Bug ID CSCus10922.

Cisco AsyncOS 8.0 before 8.0.6-119 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (proxy-process hang) via a crafted HTTP POST request, aka Bug ID CSCuo12171.

Memory leak in Cisco AsyncOS 8.5 through 9.0 before 9.0.1-162 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an HTTP file-range request for cached content, aka Bug ID CSCuw97270.

Memory leak in Cisco AsyncOS through 8.8 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an unspecified HTTP status code, aka Bug ID CSCur28305.

The web framework on Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), Email Security Appliance (ESA), and Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) devices does not properly manage the state of HTTP and HTTPS sessions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (management GUI outage) via multiple TCP connections, aka Bug IDs CSCuj59411, CSCuf89818, and CSCuh05635.

Cisco Web Security Appliance Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Cisco Web Security Appliance Web Proxy Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in traffic-monitoring functions in Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to circumvent Layer 4 Traffic Monitor (L4TM) functionality and bypass security protections. The vulnerability is due to a change in the underlying operating system software that is responsible for monitoring affected traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted IP packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to pass traffic through the device, which the WSA was configured to deny. This vulnerability affects both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. This vulnerability affects Cisco AsyncOS versions for WSA on both virtual and hardware appliances running any release of the 10.5.1, 10.5.2, or 11.0.0 WSA Software. The WSA is vulnerable if it is configured for L4TM. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvg78875.

libclamav in ClamAV (aka Clam AntiVirus), as used in Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) on Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) devices before 9.7.0-125 and Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices before 9.0.1-135 and 9.1.x before 9.1.1-041, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (AMP process restart) via a crafted document, aka Bug IDs CSCuv78533 and CSCuw60503.

A vulnerability in the Decrypt for End-User Notification configuration parameter of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Web Security Appliances could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to connect to a secure website over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS), even if the WSA is configured to block connections to the website. Affected Products: This vulnerability affects Cisco Web Security Appliances if the HTTPS decryption options are enabled and configured for the device to block connections to certain websites. More Information: CSCvb49012. Known Affected Releases: 9.0.1-162 9.1.1-074.

A vulnerability in AsyncOS for the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to log in to the device with the privileges of a limited user or an unauthenticated, remote attacker to authenticate to certain areas of the web GUI, aka a Static Credentials Vulnerability. Affected Products: virtual and hardware versions of Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA). More Information: CSCve06124. Known Affected Releases: 10.1.0-204. Known Fixed Releases: 10.5.1-270.

Cisco AsyncOS through 9.5.0-444 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (link saturation) by making many HTTP requests for overlapping byte ranges simultaneously, aka Bug ID CSCuz27219.

A vulnerability in Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Cisco Email Security Appliances (ESA) and Web Security Appliances (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a partial denial of service (DoS) condition due to the AMP process unexpectedly restarting. Affected Products: Cisco AsyncOS Software for Email Security Appliances (ESA) versions 9.5 and later up to the first fixed release, Cisco AsyncOS Software for Web Security Appliances (WSA) all versions prior to the first fixed release. More Information: CSCux56406, CSCux59928. Known Affected Releases: 9.6.0-051 9.7.0-125 8.8.0-085 9.5.0-444 WSA10.0.0-000. Known Fixed Releases: 9.7.1-066 WSA10.0.0-233.

The proxy engine on Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices with software 8.5.3-055, 9.1.0-000, and 9.5.0-235 allows remote attackers to bypass intended proxy restrictions via a malformed HTTP method, aka Bug ID CSCux00848.

A vulnerability in the web proxy functionality of the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to forward traffic from the web proxy interface of an affected device to the administrative management interface of an affected device, aka an Access Control Bypass Vulnerability. Affected Products: virtual and hardware versions of Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA). More Information: CSCvd88863. Known Affected Releases: 10.1.0-204 9.0.0-485.

A vulnerability in the email message and content filtering for malformed Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) headers of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances (ESA) and Web Security Appliances (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass the filtering functionality of the targeted device. Emails that should have been quarantined could instead be processed. Affected Products: This vulnerability affects all releases prior to the first fixed release of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco ESA and Cisco WSA on both virtual and hardware appliances that are configured with message or content filters to scan incoming email attachments. More Information: CSCuy54740, CSCuy75174. Known Affected Releases: 9.7.1-066 9.5.0-575 WSA10.0.0-000. Known Fixed Releases: 10.0.0-125 9.1.1-038 9.7.2-047.

A vulnerability in HTTP URL parsing of Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability due to the proxy process unexpectedly restarting. More Information: CSCvb04312. Known Affected Releases: 9.0.1-162 9.1.1-074. Known Fixed Releases: 10.1.0-129 9.1.2-010.

Cisco Email Security Appliance and Cisco Web Security Appliance Certificate Validation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the CLI parser of the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform command injection and elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid operator-level or administrator-level credentials. Affected Products: virtual and hardware versions of Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA). More Information: CSCvd88855. Known Affected Releases: 10.1.0-204. Known Fixed Releases: 10.5.1-270 10.1.1-234.

A vulnerability in the account management subsystem of Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid administrator credentials. The vulnerability is due to improper implementation of access controls. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the device as a specific user to gain the information needed to elevate privileges to root in a separate login shell. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to escape the CLI subshell and execute system-level commands on the underlying operating system as root. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvj93548.

Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices with software 8.5.0-ise-147 do not properly restrict use of the pickle Python module during certain tunnel-status checks, which allows local users to execute arbitrary Python code and gain privileges via a crafted pickle file, aka Bug ID CSCut39259.

Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices with software 8.5.0-ise-147 do not properly restrict use of the pickle Python module during certain tunnel-status checks, which allows local users to execute arbitrary Python code and gain privileges via crafted serialized objects, aka Bug ID CSCut39230.

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the web framework on Cisco IronPort Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices, Email Security Appliance (ESA) devices, and Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) devices allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users, aka Bug IDs CSCuh70263, CSCuh70323, and CSCuh26634.

Cisco Content Security Management Appliance, Email Security Appliance, and Web Security Appliance Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Cisco Email Security Appliance, Cisco Content Security Management Appliance, and Cisco Web Security Appliance Information Disclosure Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user of the web-based management interface of an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input by the web-based management interface of an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user of the interface to click a crafted link. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the interface or allow the attacker to access sensitive browser-based information. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf03514.