Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-1176 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Cisco products

047910
CVSS 7.1 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
cisco
CWE-20
nessus

Summary

The DSP card on Cisco TelePresence MCU 4500 and 4501 devices before 4.3(2.30), TelePresence MCU MSE 8510 devices before 4.3(2.30), and TelePresence Server before 2.3(1.55) does not properly validate H.264 data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via crafted RTP packets in a (1) SIP session or (2) H.323 session, aka Bug IDs CSCuc11328 and CSCub05448. Per: http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20130417-tpi 'Vulnerable Products The following Cisco TelePresence Infrastructure products are affected by this vulnerability: Cisco TelePresence MCU 4501 Series, MCU 4500 Series and Cisco TelePresence MCU MSE 8510 versions 4.3(2.18) and earlier Cisco TelePresence Server versions 2.2(1.54) and earlier'

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Cisco
26
Hardware
Cisco
8

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Nessus

NASL familyCISCO
NASL idCISCO_TELEPRESENCE_MCU_CVE_2013_1176.NASL
descriptionAccording the self-reported version of the remote Cisco TelePresence MCU or MCU MSE device, it is affected by a denial of service vulnerability due to a flaw in the DSP card on these devices that can be triggered by sending specially crafted RTP packets.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id70079
published2013-09-23
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/70079
titleCisco TelePresence DSP Card Crafted RTP Packet H.264 Bit Stream Handling DoS
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(70079);
  script_version("1.7");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/15 20:50:20");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2013-1176");
  script_bugtraq_id(59272);

  script_name(english:"Cisco TelePresence DSP Card Crafted RTP Packet H.264 Bit Stream Handling DoS");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the software version on the remote device");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis",
    value:"The remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description",
    value:
"According the self-reported version of the remote Cisco TelePresence
MCU or MCU MSE device, it is affected by a denial of service
vulnerability due to a flaw in the DSP card on these devices that can be
triggered by sending specially crafted RTP packets."
  );
  # https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20130417-tpi
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?22f31b75");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the software on the device to version 4.3(2.30) or higher.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2013/04/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/07/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/09/23");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:cisco:telepresence_mcu_mse_series_software");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"CISCO");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");

  script_dependencies("cisco_telepresence_mcu_detect.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Cisco/TelePresence_MCU/Version");
  exit(0);
}

include("audit.inc");
include("cisco_func.inc");

device = get_kb_item_or_exit("Cisco/TelePresence_MCU/Device");
version = get_kb_item_or_exit("Cisco/TelePresence_MCU/Version");

if (version !~ "^[0-9.()]+$") exit(0, 'The version string is invalid or not applicable.');

fix = '';
found_affected_device = FALSE;

if (
  device =~ " 45[012][05]($|[ \n\r])" || # 4500 series
  device =~ " 4501($|[ \n\r])" ||
  device =~ " MSE 8510($|[ \n\r])"
)
{
  found_affected_device = TRUE;

  if (cisco_gen_ver_compare(a:version, b:'4.3(2.30)') == -1) fix = "4.3(2.30)";
}

if (!found_affected_device) exit(0, "The remote TelePresence device is not affected.");

if (fix != '')
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0)
  {
    report = '\n  Detected version : ' + version +
             '\n  Fixed version    : ' + fix + 
             '\n';
    security_hole(port:0, extra:report);
  }
  else security_hole(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_INST_VER_NOT_VULN, "Cisco TelePresence", version);