Cisco Nexus Dashboard CSRF in Web-UI Enables Privileged Account Creation
CVE-2024-20281 Published on April 3, 2024
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Nexus Dashboard and Cisco Nexus Dashboard hosted services could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack on an affected system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient CSRF protections for the web-based management interface on an affected system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user to click a malicious link. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to perform arbitrary actions with the privilege level of the affected user. If the affected user has administrative privileges, these actions could include modifying the system configuration and creating new privileged accounts. Note: There are internal security mechanisms in place that limit the scope of this exploit, reducing the Security Impact Rating of this vulnerability.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-20281 can be exploited with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a Session Riding Vulnerability?
The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. When a web server is designed to receive a request from a client without any mechanism for verifying that it was intentionally sent, then it might be possible for an attacker to trick a client into making an unintentional request to the web server which will be treated as an authentic request. This can be done via a URL, image load, XMLHttpRequest, etc. and can result in exposure of data or unintended code execution.
CVE-2024-20281 has been classified to as a Session Riding vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-20281
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Affected Versions
Cisco Data Center Network Manager:- Version 12.1(1) is affected.
- Version 12.1.1e is affected.
- Version 12.1.2e is affected.
- Version 12.1.3b is affected.
- Version 12.0.1a is affected.
- Version 12.0.2d is affected.
- Version 12.0.2f is affected.
- Version 1.1(0c) is affected.
- Version 1.1(0d) is affected.
- Version 1.1(2h) is affected.
- Version 1.1(2i) is affected.
- Version 1.1(3c) is affected.
- Version 1.1(3d) is affected.
- Version 1.1(3e) is affected.
- Version 1.1(3f) is affected.
- Version 2.0(1b) is affected.
- Version 2.0(1d) is affected.
- Version 2.0(2g) is affected.
- Version 2.0(2h) is affected.
- Version 2.1(1d) is affected.
- Version 2.1(1e) is affected.
- Version 2.1(2d) is affected.
- Version 2.1(2f) is affected.
- Version 2.2(1e) is affected.
- Version 2.2(1h) is affected.
- Version 2.2(2d) is affected.
- Version 2.3(1c) is affected.
- Version 2.3(2b) is affected.
- Version 2.3(2c) is affected.
- Version 2.3(2d) is affected.
- Version 2.3(2e) is affected.
- Version 3.0(1f) is affected.
- Version N/A is affected.
- Version 2.2.2.125 is affected.
- Version 2.2.2.126 is affected.
- Version 5.0.1.150 is affected.
- Version 5.0.1.154 is affected.
- Version 5.1.0.131 is affected.
- Version 5.1.0.135 is affected.
- Version 6.0.1 is affected.
- Version 6.0.2 is affected.
- Version 6.1.1 is affected.
- Version 6.1.2 is affected.
- Version 6.1.3 is affected.
- Version 6.3.1 is affected.
- Version 6.2.1 is affected.
- Version 6.2.2 is affected.
Exploit Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.