Summary
Affected Products
Details
Impact
Software Versions and Fixes
Workarounds
Obtaining Fixed Software
Exploitation and Public Announcements
Status of This Notice: FINAL
Distribution
Revision History
Cisco Security Procedures
CiscoWorks Management Center for IDS Sensors (IDSMC) is a network security software agent that provides configuration and signature management for Cisco Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention systems.
A separate but closely related product, Monitoring Center for Security (Security Monitor or Secmon), provides event collection, viewing, and reporting capability for network devices.
A malicious attacker may be able to spoof a Cisco Intrusion Detection Sensor (IDS), or Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) by exploiting a vulnerability in the SSL certificate checking functionality in IDSMC and Secmon.
Cisco has made free software available to address this vulnerability.
This advisory is available at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050824-idsmc.shtml.
This section provides details on affected products.
These products are vulnerable:
These products are not vulnerable:
No other Cisco products are currently known to be affected by vulnerability.
A malicious attacker may be able to spoof an IDS or IPS by exploiting a vulnerability in the SSL certificate checking functionality in IDSMC and Secmon.
SSL certificates are used to secure and authenticate IDS and IPS sensors, thereby ensuring safe communication across your network.
This vulnerability is documented in the Cisco Bug Toolkit as Bug ID CSCsa50100 ( registered customers only) and CSCsb57379 ( registered customers only)
If exploited, the attacker may be able to gather login credentials, submit false data to IDSMC and Secmon or filter legitimate data from IDSMC and Secmon, thus impacting the integrity of the device and the reporting capabilities of it.
This issue is addressed in Service Pack 1 for IPSMC 2.1 and Security Monitor 2.1. This service pack is available for download at http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/mgmt-ctr-ids-app
This service pack provides monitoring of certificate information and provides logged messages when the certificate changes for any reason for both IDSMC and Secmon.
In addition to logging certificate changes, this service pack allows Secmon to optionally drop the connection should the certificate change.
Revision 2.2 of IPSMC will provide the option to drop the connection between the sensor and IPSMC should the certificate change. This release is anticipated to be available in late 2005.
As a security best practice, you should always configure your IPS device with a list of trusted hosts or networks that you want to have access to the IPS sensor.
For more information on setting up IPS access lists so that only trusted hosted and networks may access the sensor, please see http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps2113/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a008045a77c.html#wp1031536
Cisco has made free software available to address this vulnerability for affected customers. Prior to deploying software, customers should consult their maintenance provider or check the software for feature set compatibility and known issues specific to their environment.
Customers may only install and expect support for the feature sets they have purchased. By installing, downloading, accessing or otherwise using such software upgrades, customers agree to be bound by the terms of Cisco's software license terms found at http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-license-agreement.html, or as otherwise set forth at Cisco.com Downloads at http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/sw-usingswc.shtml.
Do not contact either "psirt@cisco.com" or "security-alert@cisco.com" for software upgrades.
Customers with contracts should obtain upgraded software through their regular update channels. For most customers, this means that upgrades should be obtained through the Software Center on Cisco's worldwide website at http://www.cisco.com.
Customers whose Cisco products are provided or maintained through prior or existing agreement with third-party support organizations such as Cisco Partners, authorized resellers, or service providers should contact that support organization for assistance with the upgrade, which should be free of charge.
Customers who purchase direct from Cisco but who do not hold a Cisco service contract and customers who purchase through third-party vendors but are unsuccessful at obtaining fixed software through their point of sale should get their upgrades by contacting the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC). TAC contacts are as follows.
Please have your product serial number available and give the URL of this notice as evidence of your entitlement to a free upgrade. Free upgrades for non-contract customers must be requested through the TAC.
Please do not contact either "psirt@cisco.com" or "security-alert@cisco.com" for software upgrades.
See http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/687/Directory/DirTAC.shtml for additional TAC contact information, including special localized telephone numbers and instructions and e-mail addresses for use in various languages.
Customers may only install and expect support for the feature sets they have purchased. By installing, downloading, accessing or otherwise using such software upgrades, customers agree to be bound by the terms of Cisco's software license terms found at http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-license-agreement.html, or as otherwise set forth at Cisco.com Downloads at http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/sw-usingswc.shtml.
The Cisco PSIRT is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability described in this advisory.
Cisco would like to thank Jan Bervar at NIL Data Communications for bringing this to our attention.
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This advisory will be posted on Cisco's worldwide website at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050824-idsmc.shtml
In addition to worldwide web posting, a text version of this notice is clear-signed with the Cisco PSIRT PGP key and is posted to the following e-mail and Usenet news recipients.
Future updates of this advisory, if any, will be placed on Cisco's worldwide website, but may or may not be actively announced on mailing lists or newsgroups. Users concerned about this problem are encouraged to check the above URL for any updates.
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Revision 1.1 |
2005-August-24 |
Fixed link to advisory in Summary section. |
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Revision 1.0 |
2005-August-24 |
Initial public release. |
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| Updated: Aug 24, 2005 | Document ID: 66142 |