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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CVE-2013-3379

Severity High
Score 8.3/10

Summary

The firewall subsystem in Cisco TelePresence TC Software before 4.2 does not properly implement rules that grant access to hosts, which allows remote attackers to obtain shell access with root privileges by leveraging connectivity to the management network, aka Bug ID CSCts37781.

  • LOW
  • ADJACENT_NETWORK
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE

CWE-264 - Permissions Privileges and Access Controls

CWE 264 (permissions, privileges, and access controls) is not a weakness in and of itself, rather it is a category of weaknesses related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features used to perform access control. If not addressed, the weaknesses in this category allow attackers to gain privileges for an unintended sphere of control, access sensitive information, and execute arbitrary commands.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published