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Cisco Prime Infrastructure Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20160406-remcode) - Version Check

🗓️ 21 Apr 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType 
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending an HTTP POST with crafted deserialized user data, allowing the attacker to execute arbitrary code with root-level privileges on the affected system

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:cisco:prime_infrastructure";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.105615");
  script_version("2025-10-07T05:38:31+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-10-07 05:38:31 +0000 (Tue, 07 Oct 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-04-21 11:49:04 +0200 (Thu, 21 Apr 2016)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"9.3");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-07-29 17:47:00 +0000 (Mon, 29 Jul 2019)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-1291");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("Cisco Prime Infrastructure Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20160406-remcode) - Version Check");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("CISCO");
  script_dependencies("gb_cisco_pis_consolidation.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("cisco/pis/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"A vulnerability in the web interface of Cisco Prime
  Infrastructure could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a
  targeted system.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The vulnerability is due to insufficient sanitization of HTTP
  user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending an HTTP POST with
  crafted deserialized user data.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code
  with root-level privileges on the affected system, which could be used to conduct further
  attacks.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Cisco Prime Infrastructure prior to version 2.2.3 Update 4 and
  3.0 prior to 3.0.2.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 2.2.3 Update 4, 3.0.2 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160406-remcode");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (!version = get_app_version(cpe: CPE, nofork: TRUE))
  exit(0);

if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "2.2.3"))
  fix = "2.2.3 Update 4";

if (version =~ "^2\.2\.3") {
  installed_patches = get_kb_item("cisco/pis/installed_patches");
  if (!installed_patches || "Update 4" >!< installed_patches)
    fix = "2.2.3 Update 4";
}

if (version =~ "^3\.")
  if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "3.0.2"))
    fix = "3.0.2";

if (fix) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: fix);
  security_message(port: 0, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

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