SNS Vulnerability

Cisco Unified Computing System Central Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

(:A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been identified in the HTTP web-based management interface of Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Central Software.:A remote attacker can exploit it in order to execute arbitrary JavaScript or HTML code by inciting their victim into following a specially formed link.::The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of a user-supplied value.)

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable OS:
Unified Computing System (Cisco) - 1.4(1a)

Solution

Cisco has released sofware updates which fix this vulnerability.

CVE

CVE-2016-1401

References

- Cisco Unified Computing System Central Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160517-ucs

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'meta' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'a' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : cookie access attempt using script language found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL	3.2.0

Risk level

Moderate

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2016-05-17

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote