CVE-2019-1940 is a vulnerability in Cisco Industrial Network Director
Published on July 17, 2019
Cisco Industrial Network Director Web Services Management Agent Unauthorized Information Disclosure Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the Web Services Management Agent (WSMA) feature of Cisco Industrial Network Director (IND) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized read access to sensitive data using an invalid X.509 certificate. The vulnerability is due to insufficient X.509 certificate validation when establishing a WSMA connection. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by supplying a crafted X.509 certificate during the WSMA connection setup phase. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to decrypt confidential information on WSMA connections to the affected software. At the time of publication, this vulnerability affected Cisco IND Software releases prior to 1.7.
Weakness Type
Cryptographic Issues
Weaknesses in this category are related to the design and implementation of data confidentiality and integrity. Frequently these deal with the use of encoding techniques, encryption libraries, and hashing algorithms. The weaknesses in this category could lead to a degradation of the quality data if they are not addressed.
Products Associated with CVE-2019-1940
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Affected Versions
Cisco Industrial Network Director:- Version unspecified and below 1.7 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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