Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-12212 - Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in Cisco Unity Connection 10.5(2)

047910
CVSS 6.1 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
LOW
Integrity impact
LOW
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
cisco
CWE-79
nessus
NVD
Published: 2017-09-07
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

A vulnerability in the web framework of Cisco Unity Connection could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user of the web interface of an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of certain parameters that are passed to the affected software via the HTTP GET and HTTP POST methods. An attacker who can convince a user to follow an attacker-supplied link could execute arbitrary script or HTML code in the user's browser in the context of an affected site. Known Affected Releases 10.5(2). Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf25345.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Cisco
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • 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.
  • Embedding Scripts in Non-Script Elements
    This attack is a form of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) where malicious scripts are embedded in elements that are not expected to host scripts such as image tags (<img>), comments in XML documents (< !-CDATA->), etc. These tags may not be subject to the same input validation, output validation, and other content filtering and checking routines, so this can create an opportunity for an attacker to tunnel through the application's elements and launch a XSS attack through other elements. As with all remote attacks, it is important to differentiate the ability to launch an attack (such as probing an internal network for unpatched servers) and the ability of the remote attacker to collect and interpret the output of said attack.
  • Embedding Scripts within Scripts
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities that are brought on by allowing remote hosts to execute scripts. The attacker leverages this capability to execute scripts to execute his/her own script by embedding it within other scripts that the target software is likely to execute. The attacker must have the ability to inject script into script that is likely to be executed. If this is done, then the attacker can potentially launch a variety of probes and attacks against the web server's local environment, in many cases the so-called DMZ, back end resources the web server can communicate with, and other hosts. With the proliferation of intermediaries, such as Web App Firewalls, network devices, and even printers having JVMs and Web servers, there are many locales where an attacker can inject malicious scripts. Since this attack pattern defines scripts within scripts, there are likely privileges to execute said attack on the host. Of course, these attacks are not solely limited to the server side, client side scripts like Ajax and client side JavaScript can contain malicious scripts as well. In general all that is required is for there to be sufficient privileges to execute a script, but not protected against writing.
  • Cross-Site Scripting in Error Pages
    An attacker distributes a link (or possibly some other query structure) with a request to a third party web server that is malformed and also contains a block of exploit code in order to have the exploit become live code in the resulting error page. When the third party web server receives the crafted request and notes the error it then creates an error message that echoes the malformed message, including the exploit. Doing this converts the exploit portion of the message into to valid language elements that are executed by the viewing browser. When a victim executes the query provided by the attacker the infected error message error message is returned including the exploit code which then runs in the victim's browser. XSS can result in execution of code as well as data leakage (e.g. session cookies can be sent to the attacker). This type of attack is especially dangerous since the exploit appears to come from the third party web server, who the victim may trust and hence be more vulnerable to deception.
  • Cross-Site Scripting Using Alternate Syntax
    The attacker uses alternate forms of keywords or commands that result in the same action as the primary form but which may not be caught by filters. For example, many keywords are processed in a case insensitive manner. If the site's web filtering algorithm does not convert all tags into a consistent case before the comparison with forbidden keywords it is possible to bypass filters (e.g., incomplete black lists) by using an alternate case structure. For example, the "script" tag using the alternate forms of "Script" or "ScRiPt" may bypass filters where "script" is the only form tested. Other variants using different syntax representations are also possible as well as using pollution meta-characters or entities that are eventually ignored by the rendering engine. The attack can result in the execution of otherwise prohibited functionality.

Nessus

NASL familyCISCO
NASL idCISCO_UC_10_5_2.NASL
descriptionCisco Unity Connection 10.5(2) with a default configuration allows remote attackers to conduct a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against the user of the web interface by submitting invalid input parameters via HTTP GET or POST.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id103112
published2017-09-11
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103112
titleCisco Unity Connection Reflected XSS Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20170906-cuc)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(103112);
  script_version("1.4");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/11/12");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-12212");
  script_xref(name:"CISCO-BUG-ID", value:"CSCvf25345");
  script_xref(name:"CISCO-SA", value:"cisco-sa-20170906-cuc");

  script_name(english:"Cisco Unity Connection Reflected XSS Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20170906-cuc)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks Cisco Unity Connection version");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The version of Cisco Unity Connection on the remote host is affected
 by a relfected cross-site scripting vulnerability.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Cisco Unity Connection 10.5(2) with a default configuration allows 
remote attackers to conduct a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) 
attack against the user of the web interface by submitting 
invalid input parameters via HTTP GET or POST.");
  # https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170906-cuc
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?86fa5dd5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade Cisco Unity Connection per the vendor advisory CSCvf25345.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
  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:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2017-12212");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/09/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/09/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/09/11");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:cisco:unity_connection");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("cisco_uc_version.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/Cisco/Unity_Connection/Version");

  exit(0);
}

include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");

version = get_kb_item("Host/Cisco/Unity_Connection/Version");
if (isnull(version)) audit(AUDIT_NOT_INST, 'Cisco Unity Connection');
fix = "10.5.2.16130.1";
if (version =~ "^10\.5(\.|$)")
{
  if (ver_compare(ver:version, fix:fix, strict:FALSE) < 0)
  {
    report =
      '\n  Installed version : ' + version +
      '\n  Fixed version     : ' + fix + 
      '\n';
    security_report_v4(severity:SECURITY_WARNING, extra:report, port:0, xss:TRUE);
  }
  else audit(AUDIT_INST_VER_NOT_VULN, "Cisco Unity Connection", version);
}
else audit(AUDIT_INST_VER_NOT_VULN, "Cisco Unity Connection", version);

References