Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software CLI Arbitrary File Write Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software)

CVE-2021-34761
MEDIUM 4.4

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.22 % · percentile 12 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Modified

Description

A vulnerability in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite or append arbitrary data to system files using root-level privileges. The attacker must have administrative credentials on the device. This vulnerability is due to incomplete validation of user input for a specific CLI command. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the device with administrative privileges and issuing a CLI command with crafted user parameters. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to overwrite or append arbitrary data to system files using root-level privileges.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-73 — External Control of File Name or Path
  • CWE-668 — Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Ncisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Softwareaffected 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