CVE-2019-15992

Description

A vulnerability in the implementation of the Lua interpreter integrated in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the underlying Linux operating system of an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions on the allowed Lua function calls within the context of user-supplied Lua scripts. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to trigger a heap overflow condition and execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the underlying Linux operating system of an affected device.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.2

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

5.024

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software Remote Code Execution Vulnerability For Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software	NCM
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software Remote Code Execution Vulnerability For Cisco Firepower Management Center	NCM
Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability (CVE-2019-15992)	NCM

Patch Details

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Patch ID	Patch Description
PATCH-1706057	Security Update for Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 99.17(1.69)
PATCH-1700780	Security Update for Cisco Firepower Management Center 6.7.0

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234