Cisco Prime Network Control System (NCS) and Wireless Control System (WCS) vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS)

Overview

Cisco Prime NCS and WCS Health Monitor Login pages contain a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability (CWE-79).

Description

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (‘Cross-site Scripting’)

Cisco Prime Network Control System (NCS) and Wireless Control System (WCS) Health Monitor Login pages contain an input validation error which results in a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability that can allow an attacker to inject arbitrary HTML content (including script).

Please see Cisco Release Note Enclosure (RNE) CSCud18375 (login required) for more information.

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Impact

An attacker can conduct a cross-site scripting attack which may be used to inject arbitrary HTML content (including script) into a web page presented to the user. JavaScript can be used to steal authentication cookies or other sensitive information.

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Solution

We are currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem.

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Vendor Information

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Cisco Systems, Inc. Affected

Notified: May 24, 2013 Updated: July 31, 2013

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

We are not aware of further vendor information regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor References

• <https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCud18375&gt;

CVSS Metrics

Group	Score	Vector
Base	5.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Temporal	5.5	E:F/RL:U/RC:C
Environmental	1.4	CDP:N/TD:L/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND

References

• <http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html&gt;
• <https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCud18375&gt;

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Tenable Network Security for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Adam Rauf.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2012-5990
Date Public:	2013-09-03 Date First Published: