Cisco Prime Infrastructure Privilege Escalation API Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20160406-privauth)

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

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

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.105616");
  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 12:49:04 +0200 (Thu, 21 Apr 2016)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.5");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N");
  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-2016-1290");

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

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

  script_name("Cisco Prime Infrastructure Privilege Escalation API Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20160406-privauth)");

  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 application programming interface
  (API) of Cisco Prime Infrastructure could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain
  elevated privileges.");

  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 improper role-based access control
  (RBAC) when an unexpected HTTP URL request is received that does not match an expected pattern
  filter. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request with a
  modified URL to bypass RBAC settings.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An exploit could allow the attacker to gain elevated privileges
  for the application and gain unauthorized access to data.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Cisco Prime Infrastructure prior to version 2.2.3 Update 3 and
  3.0 prior to 3.0.3.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 2.2.3 Update 3, 3.0.3 or later");

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

  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 3";

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

if (version =~ "^3\.")
  if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "3.0.3"))
    fix = "3.0.3";

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

exit(99);