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Cisco Integrated Management Controller Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20170419-cimc)

🗓️ 20 Apr 2017 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AGType 
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A vulnerability in Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) allows authenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with root-level privilege

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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:integrated_management_controller";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106771");
  script_version("2025-09-09T05:38:49+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-09 05:38:49 +0000 (Tue, 09 Sep 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-04-20 09:20:08 +0200 (Thu, 20 Apr 2017)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"9.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-10-09 23:28:00 +0000 (Wed, 09 Oct 2019)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-6619");

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

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

  script_name("Cisco Integrated Management Controller Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20170419-cimc)");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("CISCO");
  script_dependencies("gb_cisco_imc_http_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("cisco/imc/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"A vulnerability in the web-based GUI of Cisco Integrated
  Management Controller (IMC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate the
  privileges of user accounts on the affected device.");

  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 input validation. An
  attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP requests to the affected
  device.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation could allow an authenticated attacker to
  elevate the privileges of user accounts configured on the device.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 3.0.1d or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170419-cimc");

  exit(0);
}

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

if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))

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

check_vers = ereg_replace(string: version, pattern: "\(([0-9A-Za-z.]+)\)", replace: ".\1");

affected = make_list(
                "1.4.1",
                "1.4.2",
                "1.4.3",
                "1.4.4",
                "1.4.5",
                "1.4.6",
                "1.4.7",
                "1.4.8",
                "1.5.1",
                "1.5.2",
                "1.5.3",
                "1.5.4",
                "1.5.5",
                "1.5.6",
                "1.5.7",
                "1.5.8",
                "1.5.9",
                "2.0.1",
                "2.0.2",
                "2.0.3",
                "2.0.4",
                "2.0.5",
                "2.0.6",
                "2.0.7",
                "2.0.8",
                "2.0.9",
                "2.0.10",
                "2.0.11",
                "2.0.12",
                "2.0.13",
                "3.0.1c" );

foreach af (affected) {
  if (check_vers == af) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "3.0.1d");
    security_message(port: port, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
}

exit(99);

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