CVE-2017-3806 Command injection in Cisco Firepower 4100 Series Next-Generation Firewall and Cisco Firepower 9300 Security Appliance 2.0(1.68)

Medium 5.3 Published Updated

An authenticated local attacker can inject arbitrary shell commands into Cisco Firepower firewalls, leading to code execution on the device.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2017-3806?

CVE-2017-3806 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense, published on 3 Feb 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in CLI command processing in the Cisco Firepower 4100 Series Next-Generation Firewall and Cisco Firepower 9300 Security Appliance could allow an authenticated, local attacker to inject arbitrary shell commands that are executed by the device. More Information: CSCvb61343. Known Affected Releases: 2.0(1.68). Known Fixed Releases: 2.0(1.118) 2.1(1.47) 92.1(1.1646) 92.1(1.1763) 92.2(1.101).

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-3806?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense.

How do I fix CVE-2017-3806?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-3806 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2017-3806 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-3806 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-h6gm-h2wg-p29r.

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