Cisco Nexus Operating System Devices Command Line Interface Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Cisco-SA-20150701-CVE-2015-4237)

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CPE = "cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.105701");
  script_version("2022-12-26T10:12:01+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2022-12-26 10:12:01 +0000 (Mon, 26 Dec 2022)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-05-12 16:15:38 +0200 (Thu, 12 May 2016)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.6");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-4237");

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

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

  script_name("Cisco Nexus Operating System Devices Command Line Interface Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Cisco-SA-20150701-CVE-2015-4237)");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
  script_family("CISCO");
  script_dependencies("gb_cisco_nx_os_consolidation.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("cisco/nx_os/detected", "cisco/nx_os/device", "cisco/nx_os/model");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"A vulnerability in the Command Line Interface (CLI) parser of
  Cisco Nexus Operating System (NX-OS) devices could allow an authenticated, local attacker to
  perform a privilege escalation.");

  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 input validation of
  special characters within filenames. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by
  authenticating at the local shell and writing a file to disk with certain special characters. The
  attacker could then use that file with other CLI commands to obtain a shell prompt at their
  current privilege level.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An exploit could allow the attacker to read and write files and
  perform other privileged commands.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"See the referenced vendor advisory for a solution.");


  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/Cisco-SA-20150701-CVE-2015-4237");

  exit(0);
}

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

if( ! device = get_kb_item( "cisco/nx_os/device" ) )
  exit( 0 );

if( "Nexus" >!< device )
  exit( 0 );

if ( ! nx_model = get_kb_item( "cisco/nx_os/model" ) )
  exit( 0 );

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

if( nx_model =~ "^C?3[0-9]+" ) {
  affected = make_list( "7.2(0)ZZ(99.1)" );
}

if( nx_model =~ "^C?4[0-9]+" ) {
  affected = make_list( "4.1(2)E1(1)" );
}

if( nx_model =~ "^C?5[0-9]+" ) {
  affected = make_list( "7.2(0)ZZ(99.1)" );
}

if( nx_model =~ "^C?7[0-9]+" ) {
  affected = make_list( "6.2(12)" );
}

if( nx_model =~ "^C?9[0-9]{3}" ) {
  affected = make_list( "7.2(0)ZZ(99.3)" );
}

foreach af ( affected ) {
  if( version == af ) {
    report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version: "See advisory" );
    security_message( port:0, data:report );
    exit( 0 );
  }
}

exit( 99 );