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Active exploitation of Cisco IOS XE Software Web Management User Interface vulnerabilities

Cisco Talos ()11 min read3
Analyze CVE-2023-20198 with Vani AIImpact, affected versions, exploitation, mitigations and detection

Vulnerabilities mentioned

All
CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2021-1435
A vulnerability in the web UI of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary commands that can be executed as the…
7.28%
CVE-2023-20198
Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation in Cisco IOS XE Web UI (Actively Exploited)
10.0100%KEV
KEV
CVE-2023-20273
Authenticated Command Injection (Root) in Cisco IOS XE Web UI
7.293%KEV
KEV

Indicators of compromise

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TypeIndicatorContext
ipv4154.53.56.231e name “cisco_support” from a second suspicious IP address (154.53.56[.]231). Unlike the September case, this October activity includ
ipv45.149.249.74he username “cisco_tac_admin” from a suspicious IP address (5.149.249[.]74). Instances of this activity ended on Oct. 1, and we did
sha10ff4fbf0ecffa77ce8d3852a29263e263838e9bbaddress of the device to check: curl -k -H "Authorization: 0ff4fbf0ecffa77ce8d3852a29263e263838e9bb" -X POST "https[:]//DEVICEIP/webui/logoutconfirm.html?logon

From the original article

11 min read at blog.talosintelligence.com

Nov. 02 : Identified a third version of the BadCandy implant. Added expected response from the new version of the implant against one of the HTTP requests used to check for infected device.

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