Cisco Prime Central Hosted Collaboration Solution Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Cisco-SA-20150730-CVE-2015-4292 · Medium · Published · Updated

A vulnerability in the HTTP web-based management interface of the Cisco Prime Central for Hosted Collaboration Solution (PC4HCS) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user of the web interface of the affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of a user-supplied value. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by convincing a user to click on a specific link. Cisco has confirmed the vulnerability; however, software updates are not available. To exploit the vulnerability, the attacker may provide a link that directs a user to a malicious site and use misleading language or instructions to persuade the user to follow the provided link. Cisco indicates through the CVSS score that functional exploit code exists; however, the code is not known to be publicly available.

Workarounds

Administrators are advised to contact the vendor regarding future updates and releases.

Users should verify that unsolicited links are safe to follow.

For additional information about XSS attacks and the methods used to exploit these vulnerabilities, see the Cisco Applied Mitigation Bulletin Understanding Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Threat Vectorshttp://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/cmb/cisco-amb-20060922-understanding-xss.html .

Administrators are advised to monitor affected systems.

CVEsCVE-2015-4292
Cisco Bug IDsCSCuv45818
CVSS ScoreBase 4.3
Base 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N/E:F/RL:U/RC:C

Public Affected Products