Time to throw out those older, vulnerable Cisco SMB routers – they’re not gonna fix critical bugs for you

[…]Cisco has just released fixes for seven flaws, two of which are not great.

First on the priority list should be a critical vulnerability in its enterprise security appliances, and the second concerns another critical bug in some of its outdated small business routers that it’s not going to fix. In other words, junk your kit or somehow mitigate the risk.

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The first security flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-20798, is an authentication bypass vulnerability in the virtual and hardware versions of Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, and the Cisco Email Security Appliance. It occurs when the device uses Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for external authentication, and the good news is that Cisco disables external authentication by default.

A remote user could exploit the flaw “by entering a specific input on the login page of the affected device,” the networking titan warned in a security advisory this week. Once the intruder has gained unauthorized access, they could perform any number of illicit actions from the web-based interface including crashing the device.

Another high-severity flaw, CVE-2022-20664, in these same virtual and hardware appliances could allow a remote, authenticated user to steal credentials from a LDAP external authentication server connected to a device. However, exploiting this bug would require valid operator-level, or higher, credentials. It received a CVSS score of 7.7, and Cisco issued a software update to fix this bug, too.

More e-waste

The second critical vulnerability exists in the web-based management interface of Cisco Small Business RV110W, RV130, RV130W, and RV215W routers, which the vendor stopped selling [PDF] in 2019. Cisco isn’t issuing a fix for this one, and said there’s no workaround. Instead, customers should upgrade to newer hardware.

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-20825, also received a 9.8 CVSS score, and it’s due to insufficient user input validation of incoming HTTP packets.

“An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted request to the web-based management interface,” according to Cisco’s security alert. “A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on an affected device using root-level privileges,” and also stop and restart the device, resulting in a denial of service.

In addition to the two critical and one high-severity vulnerabilities, Cisco disclosed an additional four medium-severity flaws on Wednesday.

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Source: Time to throw out those older, vulnerable Cisco SMB routers • The Register

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