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Cisco Prime Infrastructure API Credentials Management Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20170315-cpi)

🗓️ 16 Mar 2017 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AGType 
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure API Credentials Management Vulnerability, lack of proper role-based access control (RBAC) for certain APIs, allows unauthorized acces

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106656");
  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:"2017-03-16 11:15:17 +0700 (Thu, 16 Mar 2017)");
  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:L/I:L/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-10-03 00:03:00 +0000 (Thu, 03 Oct 2019)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-3869");

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

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

  script_name("Cisco Prime Infrastructure API Credentials Management Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20170315-cpi)");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 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 APIs for Cisco Prime Infrastructure
  could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to access an API that should be restricted to a
  privileged user. The attacker needs to have valid credentials.");

  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 a lack of proper role-based access
  control (RBAC) for certain APIs in the application. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability
  by authenticating to specific APIs as a low-privileged user.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An exploit could allow the attacker to view or modify system
  configuration information. The API usage should be restricted based on the user's privilege
  level.");

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

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170315-cpi");

  exit(0);
}

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

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

if (version == "3.1.1") {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "See advisory");
  security_message(port: 0, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

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07 Oct 2025 00:00Current
5.6Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.6
CVSS 35.4
CVSS 25.5
EPSS0.00958
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