CVE-2019-1937: cisco cisco unified computing system director Improper Authentication

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2019-1937 is a high (CVSS 10.0) Improper Authentication vulnerability in cisco cisco unified computing system director. EPSS estimates a 75.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.5% of scored vulnerabilities. 3 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 21-08-2019
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 16-09-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) Supervisor, Cisco UCS Director, and Cisco UCS Director Express for Big Data could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to acquire a valid session token with administrator privileges, bypassing user authentication. The vulnerability is due to insufficient request header validation during the authentication process. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of malicious requests to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to use the acquired session token to gain full administrator access to the affected device.

• CWE-287Improper AuthenticationWhen an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.