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Cisco Products SSL/TLS and SSH Validation Security Issue
Secunia Advisory: SA23836
Release Date: 2007-01-19
Last Update: 2007-01-23
Popularity: 7,828 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Spoofing
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS) 4.x

Software:Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) 5.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-0397


Description:
A security issue has been reported in Cisco products, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks.

The problem is that the SSL/TLS certificates and SSH public keys presented by devices are not being validated. This can be exploited to conduct spoofing attacks and possibly gain knowledge of sensitive information.

The security issue reported in the following products:
* Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS) versions prior to 4.2.3.
* Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) versions prior to 5.2.

Solution:
Update to the latest version.

Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS):
Update to version 4.2.3.
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/cs-mars?psrtdcat20e2

Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM):
Update to version 5.2.
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/asa-interim?psrtdcat20e2

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Jan Bervar, NIL Data Communications.

Changelog:
2007-01-23: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20070118-certs.shtml


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