CWE Code: 287
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 10.0
CWE Name:  Improper Authentication
Summary: a vulnerability in the web-based management interface of cisco integrated management controller (imc) supervisor, cisco ucs director, and cisco ucs director express for big data could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to acquire a valid session token with administrator privileges, bypassing user authentication. the vulnerability is due to insufficient request header validation during the authentication process. an attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of malicious requests to an affected device. an exploit could allow the attacker to use the acquired session token to gain full administrator access to the affected device.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: NETWORK
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2019-08-21
Last Modified Date: 2019-08-30
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CWE Code: 287
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 10.0
CWE Name:  Improper Authentication
Summary: a vulnerability in the web-based management interface of cisco integrated management controller (imc) supervisor, cisco ucs director, and cisco ucs director express for big data could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to acquire a valid session token with administrator privileges, bypassing user authentication. the vulnerability is due to insufficient request header validation during the authentication process. an attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of malicious requests to an affected device. an exploit could allow the attacker to use the acquired session token to gain full administrator access to the affected device.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: NETWORK
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2019-08-21
Last Modified Date: 2019-08-30
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