CVE-2017-3843 Path traversal in Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance

What is CVE-2017-3843?

CVE-2017-3843 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance, published on 22 Feb 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in the file download functions for Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to download system files that should be restricted. More Information: CSCvc99446. Known Affected Releases: 11.5(0).

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-3843?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance.

How do I fix CVE-2017-3843?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-3843 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-2017-3843 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-3843 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance

• CVE-2015-6389 Hardcoded credentials in n/a Critical 9.0
• CVE-2015-4304 Missing authorization in n/a Critical 9.0
• CVE-2017-6659 Cross-site request forgery in Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance High 8.8
• CVE-2015-4306 Auth bypass in n/a High 8.5
• CVE-2019-1662 Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance Software Unauthenticated Access Vulnerability High 8.2

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-p28f-wv4w-g7vp.