CVE-2019-1816

HIGH

Cisco Web Security Appliance - Authenticated Command Injection and Privilege Escalation via Log Subscription Subsystem

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the log subscription subsystem of the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform command injection and elevate privileges to root. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input on the web and command-line interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the affected device and injecting scripting commands in the scope of the log subscription subsystem. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system and elevate privileges to root.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0064
EPSS Percentile 46.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (4)
cisco/web_security_appliance 10.5.2-072
cisco/web_security_appliance 11.0.0-641
cisco/web_security_appliance 11.5.0-fcs-614
cisco/web_security_appliance wsa10.5.0-fcs-000
Published May 03, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026