[NEWS] Cisco IPS Privilege Escalation

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  Cisco IPS Privilege Escalation
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SUMMARY

 <http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps2113/> Cisco Intrusion 
Prevention Systems (IPS) are a family of network security devices that 
provide network based threat prevention services.

A user with OPERATOR or VIEWER access privileges may be able to exploit a 
vulnerability in the command line processing (CLI) logic to gain full 
administrative control of the IPS device.

DETAILS

Vulnerable Systems:
 * Cisco Intrusion Prevention System version 5.0(1) and 5.0(2)

Immune Systems:
 * Cisco Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) or IPS version 4.x and prior
 * Cisco IPS version 5.0(3)

A user with OPERATOR or VIEWER access privileges may be able to exploit a 
vulnerability in the command line processing logic to gain full 
administrative control of the IPS device. OPERATOR and VIEWER accounts are 
normally non-privileged accounts used for monitoring and troubleshooting 
purposes.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability grants an attacker full 
control of the IPS Device.
With full administrative access, an attacker may use the IPS device to 
bypass intrusion detection logic, run arbitrary code or perform a denial 
of service attack on the network and/or IPS device.
If the IPS device is used in inline mode, an attacker may cause an 
interruption of network service.

Vendor Status:
The vendor has issues a fix at:  
<http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/ips5> IPS version 5.0(3)


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by  <mailto:[email protected]> Cisco 
Systems Product Security Incident Response Team.
The original article can be found at:  
<http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050824-ips.shtml> 
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050824-ips.shtml



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