CVE-2017-12277

HIGH

Cisco Firepower < - Command Injection

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the Smart Licensing Manager service of the Cisco Firepower 4100 Series Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) and Firepower 9300 Security Appliance could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary commands that could be executed with root privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of certain Smart Licensing configuration parameters. An authenticated attacker could exploit the vulnerability by configuring a malicious URL within the affected feature. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. This vulnerability affects the following Cisco Firepower Security products running FX-OS code trains 1.1.3, 1.1.4, and 2.0.1 (versions 2.1.1, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2 are not affected): Firepower 4100 Series Next-Generation Firewall and Firepower 9300 Security Appliance. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvb86863.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101661

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0380
EPSS Percentile 88.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20 CWE-77
Status published
Products (4)
cisco/firepower_extensible_operating_system 1.1.4
cisco/firepower_extensible_operating_system 2.0.1
cisco/firepower_extensible_operating_system < 1.1.3
n/a/Cisco Firepower 4100 Series NGFW and Firepower 9300 Security Appliance Cisco Firepower 4100 Series NGFW and Firepower 9300 Security Appliance
Published Nov 02, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026