CVE-2019-1940 Cisco Industrial Network Director Web Services Management Agent Unauthorized Information Disclosure Vulnerability
An unauthenticated attacker can bypass X.509 certificate validation to decrypt confidential data via man-in-the-middle attacks on WSMA connections.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-1940?
CVE-2019-1940 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Industrial Network Director, published on 17 Jul 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
A vulnerability in the Web Services Management Agent (WSMA) feature of Cisco Industrial Network Director (IND) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized read access to sensitive data using an invalid X.509 certificate. The vulnerability is due to insufficient X.509 certificate validation when establishing a WSMA connection. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by supplying a crafted X.509 certificate during the WSMA connection setup phase. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to decrypt confidential information on WSMA connections to the affected software. At the time of publication, this vulnerability affected Cisco IND Software releases prior to 1.7.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-1940?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cisco Industrial Network Director.
How do I fix CVE-2019-1940?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-1940 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2019-1940 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-1940 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Industrial Network Director
- CVE-2023-20036 Cisco Industrial Network Director Command Injection Vulnerability
- CVE-2023-20038 Hardcoded credentials in Cisco Industrial Network Director
- CVE-2019-1976 Cisco Industrial Network Director Configuration Data Information Disclosure Vulnerability
- CVE-2019-1861 Cisco Industrial Network Director Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2020-3567 Cisco Industrial Network Director Denial of Service Vulnerability
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c35r-wfp8-2j62.