Title: Cisco Content Services Switch User Privilege Elevation Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
The Cisco Content Services (CSS) switch is an Enterprise-level utility by Cisco Systems. The CSS switch is a Layer 5 and 7 aware switch capable of providing a high performance frontend to web server farms and caches.
A problem has been discovered with the firmware used on the CSS switch. This problem could lead to a user with an account on the switch to gaining elevated privileges.
CSS switches are capable of multiple user accounts, and provide access control to accounts granted on the switch. These user accounts are normally non-privileged, and permit a minimum of functionality such as viewing certain information or statistics.
The firmware (WebNS) has a problem with may allow one of these non-privileged users to gain elevated privileges. By executing a specific sequence of commands from a non-privileged user account on the switch, it is possible for the non-privileged user to change the configuration and operation of the switch.
The nature of this elevated privilege, as well as the procedure to gain these privileges are currently unknown.
Affected Products:
- Cisco CSS11000 Content Services Switch
- Cisco CSS11050 Content Services Switch
- Cisco CSS11150 Content Services Switch
- Cisco CSS11501 Content Services Switch
- Cisco CSS11503 Content Services Switch
- Cisco CSS11506 Content Services Switch
- Cisco CSS11800 Content Services Switch
- Cisco WebNS 4.0.0
- Cisco WebNS 4.0.1
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