Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Profile Modification Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client)

CVE-2021-1519
MEDIUM 4.7

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.21 % · percentile 12 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Modified

Description

A vulnerability in the interprocess communication (IPC) channel of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite VPN profiles on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted IPC message to the AnyConnect process. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to modify VPN profile files. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid credentials on the affected system.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Ncisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0LOW 2.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Clientaffected n/a

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD