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Cisco PIX and ASA Multiple Authentication Bypass and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

VUPEN ID VUPEN/ADV-2007-1636
CVE ID CVE-2007-2462 - CVE-2007-2463 - CVE-2007-2464
 
CWE ID Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
CVSS V2 Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Rated as Moderate Risk 
Impact Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Authentication Level Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Access Vector Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Release Date 2007-05-03
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Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Cisco PIX and ASA, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security checks or cause a denial of service.

The first issue is caused by an error when using a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication server, which could be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access to a vulnerable device internal resources.

The second vulnerability is caused by an error when terminating Virtual Private Networks (VPN) while the tunnel group is configured with password expiry, which could be exploited by an attacker who knows the group name and group password to cause a denial of service.

The third issue is caused by a race condition within the SSL VPN HTTP server when processing non-standard SSL sessions, which could be exploited by attackers to reload a vulnerable device, creating a denial of service condition.

Affected Products

Cisco PIX 500 Series Security Appliances software versions 7.1.x
Cisco PIX 500 Series Security Appliances software versions 7.2.x
Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances software versions 7.2.x
Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances software versions 7.1.x

Solution 

Upgrade to software version 7.1(2)49 or 7.2(2)19 :
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/asa-interim?psrtdcat20e2
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/pix-interim?psrtdcat20e2

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1636
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20070502-asa.shtml

Credits 

Vulnerabilities reported by Cisco customers

Changelog 

2007-05-03 : Initial release

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 VUPEN Security Advisories By Criticality: Aug 2010


  Critical Risk

: 0%

  High Risk
: 0%

  Moderate Risk
: 0%

  Low Risk
: 100%

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