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Cisco Prime Infrastructure XML Injection Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20170621-piepnm1)

🗓️ 22 Jun 2017 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AGType 
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure XML Injection Vulnerability. Remote code execution and unauthorized access

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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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106897");
  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:"2017-06-22 12:07:33 +0700 (Thu, 22 Jun 2017)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/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-2017-6662");

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

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

  script_name("Cisco Prime Infrastructure XML Injection Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20170621-piepnm1)");

  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 web-based user interface of Cisco Prime
  Infrastructure (PI) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker read and write access to
  information stored in the affected system as well as perform remote code execution. The attacker
  must have valid user 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 improper handling of XML External
  Entity (XXE) entries when parsing an XML file. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by
  convincing the administrator of an affected system to import a crafted XML file with malicious
  entries which could allow the attacker to read and write files and execute remote code within the
  application.");

  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-20170621-piepnm1");

  exit(0);
}

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

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

affected = make_list(
  "1.2.0",
  "1.2.0.103",
  "1.2.1",
  "1.3.0",
  "1.3.0.20",
  "1.4.0",
  "1.4.0.45",
  "1.4.1",
  "1.4.2",
  "2.0.0",
  "2.1.0",
  "2.2.2",
  "2.2.3",
  "2.2.0",
  "3.0.0",
  "3.1.0.128",
  "3.1.4.0",
  "3.1.5.0",
  "3.1.0",
  "3.1.1",
  "3.2.0.0");

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);

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