Cisco Web Security Appliance Administrative Interface Access Control Bypass Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the web proxy functionality of the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to forward traffic from the web proxy interface of an affected device to the administrative management interface of an affected device.

The vulnerability exists because the affected software fails to deny traffic that is forwarded from the web proxy interface to the administrative management interface of a device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted stream of HTTP or HTTPS traffic to the web proxy interface of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow traffic to reach the administrative management interface of the affected device although the traffic should have been dropped.

There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

This advisory is available at the following link:
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170719-wsa5 [“https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170719-wsa5”]