Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-3178 - Open Redirect vulnerability in Cisco Content Security Management Appliance
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based GUI of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to redirect a user to a malicious web page. The vulnerabilities are due to improper input validation of the parameters of an HTTP request. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by intercepting an HTTP request and modifying it to redirect a user to a specific malicious URL. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to redirect a user to a malicious web page or to obtain sensitive browser-based information. This type of attack is commonly referred to as an open redirect attack and is used in phishing attacks to get users to unknowingly visit malicious sites.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Fake the Source of Data An adversary provides data under a falsified identity. The purpose of using the falsified identity may be to prevent traceability of the provided data or it might be an attempt by the adversary to assume the rights granted to another identity. One of the simplest forms of this attack would be the creation of an email message with a modified "From" field in order to appear that the message was sent from someone other than the actual sender. Results of the attack vary depending on the details of the attack, but common results include privilege escalation, obfuscation of other attacks, and data corruption/manipulation.
Nessus
| NASL family | CISCO |
| NASL id | CISCO-SA-SMA-OPN-RDRCT-YPPMDSMQ.NASL |
| description | According to its self-reported version, Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) is affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based GUI due to improper input validation of the parameters of an HTTP request. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit these, by intercepting an HTTP request and modifying it to redirect a user to a specific malicious URL, in order to redirect the user to a malicious web page or to obtain sensitive browser-based information. Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information. |
| last seen | 2020-05-31 |
| modified | 2020-05-21 |
| plugin id | 136748 |
| published | 2020-05-21 |
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| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136748 |
| title | Cisco Content Security Management Appliance Open Redirect Multiple Vulnerabilities (cisco-sa-sma-opn-rdrct-yPPMdsMQ) |
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