CVE-2016-9208 Path traversal in Cisco Emergency Responder

What is CVE-2016-9208?

CVE-2016-9208 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Cisco Emergency Responder, published on 14 Dec 2016. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in the File Management Utility, the Download File form, and the Serviceability application of Cisco Emergency Responder could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to access files in arbitrary locations on the file system of an affected device. More Information: CSCva98951 CSCva98954 CSCvb57494. Known Affected Releases: 11.5(2.10000.5). Known Fixed Releases: 12.0(0.98000.14) 12.0(0.98000.16).

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9208?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Emergency Responder.

How do I fix CVE-2016-9208?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-9208 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2016-9208 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9208 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Emergency Responder

• CVE-2008-1154 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2023-20101 Hardcoded credentials in Cisco Emergency Responder Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-12337 Hardcoded credentials in Cisco Voice Operating System Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-6468 Cross-site request forgery in Cisco Emergency Responder High 8.8
• CVE-2023-20259 Denial of service in Cisco Emergency Responder High 8.6

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-552p-g3pp-2xvh.