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Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Privilege Escalation
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA16545
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Release Date:
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2005-08-23
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Last Update:
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2005-08-25
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Popularity:
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7,773 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) 5.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-2681
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Intrusion Prevention System, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the command line processing (CLI) logic and can be exploited by a user with OPERATOR or VIEWER privileges to gain full administrative privileges.
The vulnerability affects versions 5.0(1) and 5.0(2). Versions 4.x and prior are not vulnerable.
Solution:
Update to version 5.0(3).
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/ips5
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.
Changelog:
2005-08-25: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
Cisco:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050824-ips.shtml
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