Cisco FireSIGHT Management Center Certificate Validation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the rule update functionality of Cisco FireSIGHT Management Center (MC) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to manipulate the content of the rule update packages and execute arbitrary code on the system.

The vulnerability is due to lack of certificate validation during the HTTPS connection toward support.sourcefire.com to download the rule update package. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by performing a man-in-the-middle attack (such as DNS hijacking) to enable manipulation of the rule update package content. An exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system with the privileges of the web server.

Cisco has not released software updates that address this vulnerability. Workarounds that mitigate this vulnerability are available.

This advisory is available at the following link: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151116-fmc[“https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151116-fmc”]