[NEWS] Cisco WLSE Appliance Multiple Vulnerabilities (XSS, Local Privilege Escalation)



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Cisco WLSE Appliance Multiple Vulnerabilities (XSS, Local Privilege
Escalation)
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SUMMARY

"CiscoWorks WLSE is a centralized, systems-level application for managing
and controlling an entire autonomous Cisco WLAN infrastructure."

Improper handling of user input allows attackers to cause XSS and to
perform a local privileges escalation attack with CiscoWorks Wireless LAN
Solution Engine.

DETAILS

Vulnerable Systems:
* CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine software version 2.12 and prior

Immune Systems:
* CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine software version 2.13

Cross site scripting:
By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker may obtain the session
cookie information and further use this information to gain administrative
privileges on the system.

Local privilege escalation:
By exploiting this vulnerability an attacker who already has authenticated
access to the command line interface may inject a command to obtain a
shell account on the underlying operating system.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by <mailto:psirt@xxxxxxxxx> Cisco
Security.
The original article can be found at:
<http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20060419-wlse.shtml>
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20060419-wlse.shtml



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