Zero-day Vulnerability Database

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Zero-day vulnerabilities discovered: 4

Information disclosure when handling IKEv1 packets in Cisco products
CVE-2016-6415

Information disclosure

The vulnerability allows a remote user to access potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to insufficient checks of IKE packats when handling ISAKMP requests. By sending specially crafted IKEv1 packets  to the IKE service via IPv4 or IPv6 a malicious user can obtain memory contents.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability leads to confidential information disclosure on the vulnerable system.

Note: this vulnerability was being actively exploited in the wild. It was disclosed as part of Equation Group Leak and is reffered as BENIGNCERTAIN exploit.

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The vulnerability was revealed after The Shadow Brokers hacking group published documents stolen from Equation Group on Saturday 13 August 2016. The exploit code was dubbed BENIGNCERTAIN and presumably was used by NSA operatives to infiltrate networks of government organizations and private companies.

Software: Cisco IOS

Known/fameous malware:

BENIGNCERTAIN

The vulnerability was revealed after The Shadow Brokers hacking group published documents stolen from Equation Group on Saturday 13 August 2016. The exploit code was dubbed BENIGNCERTAIN and presumably was used by NSA operatives to infiltrate networks of government organizations and private companies.

Local buffer overflow in CLI parser in Cisco ASA Appliances
CVE-2016-6367

CLI parser buffer overflow

The vulnerability allows a local user to cause denial of service or execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the command-line interface (CLI) parser. A local authenticated user can trigger buffer overflow and reload the affected device or execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will allow a local user to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable system.

The following models of CISCO ASA appliances are affected:

  • Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances
  • Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls
  • Cisco PIX Firewalls
  • Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM)

Note: this is a zero-day vulnerability, discovered after security breach of The Equation Group. The exploit code for this vulnerability was publicly exposed and is referred as EPICBANANA Exploit.

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The vulnerability was revealed after The Shadow Brokers hacking group published documents stolen from Equation Group in 2013. The exploit code was dubbed BENIGNCERTAIN and presumably was used by NSA operatives to infiltrate networks of government organizations and private companies

Firstly the vulnerability received a patch back in 2011.

Software: Cisco PIX Firewall

Known/fameous malware:

EPICBANANA.

The vulnerability was revealed after The Shadow Brokers hacking group published documents stolen from Equation Group in 2013. The exploit code was dubbed BENIGNCERTAIN and presumably was used by NSA operatives to infiltrate networks of government organizations and private companies

Firstly the vulnerability received a patch back in 2011.

Remote code execution in Cisco ASA Appliances
CVE-2016-6366

SNMP remote code execution

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when handling SNMP packets. A remote attacker with knowledge of SNMP community string can cause buffer overflow and cause the target device to reload or execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in full compromise of affected system.

The following models of CISCO ASA appliances are affected:

  • Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances
  • Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls
  • Cisco ASA Services Module for Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches and Cisco 7600 Series Routers
  • Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall
  • Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv)
  • Cisco Firepower 9300 ASA Security Module
  • Cisco PIX Firewalls
  • Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM)

Note: this is a zero-day vulnerability, discovered after security breach of The Equation Group. The exploit code for this vulnerability was publicly exposed and is referred as EXTRABACON Exploit.

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The vulnerability was revealed after The Shadow Brokers hacking group published documents stolen from Equation Group in 2013. The exploit code was dubbed ExtraBacon and presumably used by NSA operatives to infiltrate networks of government organizations and private companies.

Software: Cisco ASA Series

Known/fameous malware:

ExtraBacon.

The vulnerability was revealed after The Shadow Brokers hacking group published documents stolen from Equation Group in 2013. The exploit code was dubbed ExtraBacon and presumably used by NSA operatives to infiltrate networks of government organizations and private companies.

Remote denial of service in Cisco IOS
CVE-2016-1409

Improper input validation

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a logic error when parsing IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) packets, sent directly to the device. A remote attacker can send specially crafted IPv6 traffic to the affected device and cause the device to stop processing IPv6 traffic.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability will result in denial of service attack.

Note: according to Cisco, this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild.

Not patched

Software: Cisco IOS XR