Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-6420 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Apache Commons Collections
Summary
Serialized-object interfaces in certain Cisco Collaboration and Social Media; Endpoint Clients and Client Software; Network Application, Service, and Acceleration; Network and Content Security Devices; Network Management and Provisioning; Routing and Switching - Enterprise and Service Provider; Unified Computing; Voice and Unified Communications Devices; Video, Streaming, TelePresence, and Transcoding Devices; Wireless; and Cisco Hosted Services products allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object, related to the Apache Commons Collections (ACC) library.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Misc. NASL id CISCO_SECURITY_JAVA_DESER.NASL description The version of Cisco Security Manager running on the remote web server is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability due to unsafe deserialize calls of unauthenticated Java objects to the Apache Commons Collections (ACC) library. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by sending a crafted RMI request, to execute arbitrary code on the target host last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 99935 published 2017-05-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/99935 title Cisco Security Manager Java Object Deserialization RCE (CSCux34671) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(99935); script_version("1.5"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/11/13"); script_cve_id("CVE-2015-6420"); script_bugtraq_id(78872); script_xref(name:"CISCO-BUG-ID", value:"CSCux34671"); script_xref(name:"CERT", value:"576313"); script_name(english:"Cisco Security Manager Java Object Deserialization RCE (CSCux34671)"); script_summary(english:"Sends an unexpected Java object to the server."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "A web application running on the remote host is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "The version of Cisco Security Manager running on the remote web server is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability due to unsafe deserialize calls of unauthenticated Java objects to the Apache Commons Collections (ACC) library. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by sending a crafted RMI request, to execute arbitrary code on the target host"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCux34671"); # https://foxglovesecurity.com/2015/11/06/what-do-weblogic-websphere-jboss-jenkins-opennms-and-your-application-have-in-common-this-vulnerability/ script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?9c6d83db"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCux34671."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2015-6420"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"in_the_news", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/01/28"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/11/11"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/05/02"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:cisco:security_manager"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_ATTACK); script_family(english:"Misc."); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("cisco_security_manager_http_detect.nbin", "rmiregistry_detect.nasl"); script_require_keys("installed_sw/Cisco Security Manager"); script_require_ports("Services/rmi_registry"); exit(0); } include("global_settings.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); include("install_func.inc"); include("byte_func.inc"); include("http.inc"); include("audit.inc"); include("rmi.inc"); appname = "Cisco Security Manager"; get_install_count(app_name:appname, exit_if_zero:TRUE); port = get_service(svc:"rmi_registry", ipproto:"tcp", exit_on_fail:TRUE); # grab information about CSM that we can report to the customer http_port = get_http_port(default:443); install = get_single_install(app_name:appname, port:http_port); # connect to the rmi port soc = rmi_connect(port:port); # Due to the nature of this exploit, we can't see the result of the # commands we execute. However, successful execution of our command # will always result in a specific exception being sent back to us. # This object (CommonCollections1) executes 'whoami' and we look # for the exception that indicates successful deserialization request = 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send(socket:soc, data:request); res = recv(socket:soc, length:0x1000, min:0x800); close(soc); if (isnull(res) || "Integer cannot be cast to java.util.Set" >!< res) { audit(AUDIT_INST_VER_NOT_VULN, appname, install["version"]); } report = '\nNessus was able to exploit a Java deserialization vulnerability by' + '\nsending a crafted Java object.' + '\n'; security_report_v4(port:port, severity:SECURITY_HOLE, extra:report);
NASL family Misc. NASL id CISCO_PRIME_LMS_JAVA_DESER.NASL description The Cisco Prime Lan Management Solution (LMS) running on the remote web server is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability due to unsafe deserialize calls of unauthenticated Java objects to the Apache Commons Collections (ACC) library. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by sending a crafted RMI request, to execute arbitrary code on the target host. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 99934 published 2017-05-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/99934 title Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution Java Object Deserialization RCE (CSCux34647) NASL family CISCO NASL id CISCO_CUCM_CSCUX34835.NASL description According to its self-reported version, the Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) running on the remote device is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability due to unsafe deserialize calls of unauthenticated Java objects to the Apache Commons Collections (ACC) library. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via crafted Java objects, to execute arbitrary code on the target host. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 93939 published 2016-10-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93939 title Cisco Unified Communications Manager Java Object Deserialization RCE (CSCux34835)
The Hacker News
id | THN:90DC43ADC5123FED500235ACDF6D6277 |
last seen | 2018-01-27 |
modified | 2017-03-03 |
published | 2017-03-02 |
reporter | Swati Khandelwal |
source | https://thehackernews.com/2017/03/google-mad-gadget-flaw.html |
title | Google Employees Help Thousands Of Open Source Projects Patch Critical ‘Mad Gadget Bug’ |
References
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151209-java-deserialization
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78872
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-14
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-23
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/581311
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r352e40ca9874d1beb4ad95403792adca7eb295e6bc3bd7b65fabcc21%40%3Ccommits.samza.apache.org%3E