Cisco ASA VNMC Command Input Validation Vulnerability

The Virtual Network Management Center implementation of Cisco ASA is prone to a command input validation vulnerability.

A vulnerability in the Virtual Network Management Center (VNMC) policy code of Cisco ASA Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to access the underlying Linux operating system with the privileges of the root user. The vulnerability is due to insufficient sanitization of user supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to an affected system as administrator, copying a malicious script onto the disk, and executing the script.

Version 8.7, 9.2 and 9.3

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

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