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Cisco IDS Management Software SSL Certificate Validation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA16544
Release Date: 2005-08-23
Last Update: 2005-09-05
Popularity: 6,200 views

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

Software:CiscoWorks Management Center for IDS Sensors (IDSMC) 2.x
CiscoWorks Monitoring Center for Security 1.x
CiscoWorks Monitoring Center for Security 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-2695


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in CiscoWorks Monitoring Center for Security and CiscoWorks Management Center for IDS Sensors (IDSMC), which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof certain information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the SSL certificate checking functionality and can be exploited to spoof a Cisco Intrusion Detection Sensor (IDS) or Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS).

Successful exploitation may make it possible to gather login credentials, submit false data to IDSMC and Secmon, or filter legitimate data from IDSMC and Secmon.

The vulnerability affects the following versions (prior versions are not vulnerable):
* IDSMC versions 2.0 and 2.1.
* CiscoWorks Monitoring Center for Security versions 1.1 through 2.1.

Solution:
Apply Service Pack 1 for IDSMC 2.1 and Security Monitor 2.1.
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/mgmt-ctr-ids-app

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Jan Bervar.

Changelog:
2005-09-05: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
Cisco:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050824-idsmc.shtml


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