CVE-2017-6774

A vulnerability in Cisco ASR 5000 Series Aggregated Services Routers running the Cisco StarOS operating system could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to overwrite or modify sensitive system files. The vulnerability is due to the inclusion of sensitive system files within specific FTP subdirectories. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by overwriting sensitive configuration files through FTP. An exploit could allow the attacker to overwrite configuration files on an affected system. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvd47739. Known Affected Releases: 21.0.v0.65839.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - psirt@cisco.com

Published

2017-08-17

Last modified

2024-09-17

Weaknesses

CWE-552

Affected products

• Asr 5000 Software (Cisco)
• Staros For Asr 5000 Series Aggregated Services Routers (Cisco Systems Inc.)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100386
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039182
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170816-staros2