Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-0273 - Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco Staros

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
cisco
nessus

Summary

A vulnerability in the IPsec Manager of Cisco StarOS for Cisco Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 5000 Series Routers and Virtualized Packet Core (VPC) System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to terminate all active IPsec VPN tunnels and prevent new tunnels from being established, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper processing of corrupted Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2) messages. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted IKEv2 messages toward an affected router. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ipsecmgr service to reload. A reload of this service could cause all IPsec VPN tunnels to be terminated and prevent new tunnels from being established until the service has restarted, resulting in a DoS condition. This vulnerability affects the following Cisco products when they are running Cisco StarOS: Cisco Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 5000 Series Routers, Virtualized Packet Core (VPC) System Software. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCve29605.

Nessus

NASL familyCISCO
NASL idCISCO-SA-20180418-STAROSASR.NASL
descriptionAccording to its self-reported version and model number, the remote Cisco ASR device is affected by a denial of service vulnerability. Please see the included Cisco BID and the Cisco Security Advisory for more information.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id109401
published2018-04-27
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109401
titleCisco ASR StarOS IPsec Manager Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20180418-starosasr)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(109401);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/11/08");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-0273");
  script_bugtraq_id(103935);
  script_xref(name:"CISCO-BUG-ID", value:"CSCve29605");
  script_xref(name:"CISCO-SA", value:"cisco-sa-20180418-starosasr");
  script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2018-A-0137");

  script_name(english:"Cisco ASR StarOS IPsec Manager Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20180418-starosasr)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the StarOS version.");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote device is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"According to its self-reported version and model number, the remote
Cisco ASR device is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.
Please see the included Cisco BID and the Cisco Security Advisory for
more information.");
  # https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180418-starosasr
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?eb4c762c");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCve29605");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID
CSCve29605.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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:N/I:N/A:L");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");

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

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/04/18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/04/18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/04/27");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"potential_vulnerability", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:cisco:staros");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/h:cisco:asr_5000");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:cisco:asr_5000_series_software");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/Cisco/ASR/Model", "Host/Cisco/StarOS", "Settings/ParanoidReport");

  exit(0);
}

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

get_kb_item_or_exit("Host/Cisco/StarOS");

version  = get_kb_item_or_exit("Host/Cisco/StarOS/Version");
model   = get_kb_item_or_exit("Host/Cisco/ASR/Model");

major = NULL;
build = NULL;
fix = NULL;
train = NULL;

# only affects ASR 5000 series systems
if (model !~ "^50\d{2}$")
  audit(AUDIT_DEVICE_NOT_VULN, 'The ASR ' + model);

# Normalize train characters
version= toupper(version);

# For newer versions, We may be able to get the build number during detection
build = get_kb_item("Host/Cisco/StarOS/Build");
if (!empty_or_null(build))
  version += "." + build;

# defensive check for the pregmatches below
if (version !~ "^[\d\.]+\([\d\.]+" &&
    version !~ "^[\d\.]+([A-Z]{1,2}\d+)?\.\d+$")
  audit(AUDIT_VER_FORMAT, version);

if (report_paranoia < 2) audit(AUDIT_PARANOID);

# old style of versioning 15.0(5439), style change mid 16.1, making
# all of the old style versions fall into the vulnerable range.
if ("(" >< version)
{
  major = pregmatch(pattern:"^([\d\.]+)\(", string:version);

  if(!isnull(major))
  {
    major = major[1];

    if (isnull(build))
    {
      build = pregmatch(pattern:"^[\d\.]+\(([\d\.]+)", string:version);
      if(!isnull(build))
      {
        build = build[1];

        # Set the train to an empty string, or it causes issues when
        # seeing if a patched version exists using NULL as the value
        train = '';
      }
      else
        exit(1, "Unable to extract build number.");
    }
  }
  else
    exit(1, "Unable to extract version number.");
}
else
{
  # extract major, train, and build for new style
  extract = pregmatch(pattern:"^([\d\.]+)\.([A-Z]{1,2}\d+)?\.?(\d+)?", string:version);
  if (!isnull(extract))
  {
    major = extract[1];
    train = extract[2];
    if (isnull(build))
      build = extract[3];
  }
}

# Defensive checking for versions that we haven't yet seen
if(empty_or_null(major) || empty_or_null(build))
  exit(1, "An error occurred during version extraction.");

fix_array = make_array(
  "21.3", make_array("J0", 67141, "M0", 67139, "a0", 68015),
  "21.4", make_array("A0", 67147, "C0", 68000, "D0", 67794,
                     "M0", 67792)
);

if (major == "21.2.6" && int(build) < 67773)
  fix = "21.1.6.67773";
else if (major == "21.4.0" && int(build) < 68051)
  fix = "21.4.0.68051";
else if (!empty_or_null(fix_array[major]) &&
         !empty_or_null(train) &&
         int(build) < fix_array[major][train])
  fix = major + "." + train + "." + fix_array[major][train];

if (fix)
{
  security_report_cisco(
    port     : 0,
    severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
    override : TRUE,
    version  : version,
    fix      : fix,
    bug_id   : 'CSCve29605'
  );
}
else audit(AUDIT_DEVICE_NOT_VULN, "ASR " + model, version);