Emergency ResponderApplication · Cisco
CVE-2014-2115
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedMultiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in CERUserServlet pages in Cisco Emergency Responder (ER) 8.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users, aka Bug ID CSCun24250.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceMultiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities exist in CERUserServlet pages of Cisco Emergency Responder 8.6 and earlier. Attackers can craft malicious requests that execute within the context of an authenticated user's session, allowing hijacking of user authentication to perform unauthorized actions.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Emergency ResponderApplication
<= 8.6CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- M
- Authentication
- None
- Confidentiality
- Partial
- Integrity
- Partial
- Availability
- Partial
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify Cisco Emergency Responder versionAccess the Cisco Emergency Responder administration interface or check the installed software packages. Look for the version number in About or System Settings pages, or run: `show version` or check installed RPMs via `rpm -qa | grep cer`Affected if Version is 8.6 or lower (any version <= 8.6)
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Confirm CERUserServlet endpoint existsAttempt to access the CERUserServlet path on the web server. Common paths include /cerUserServlet or /servlet/cerUserServlet. Check HTTP response: `curl -k -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://<host>/cerUserServlet`Affected if The endpoint returns HTTP 200 or 302 (exists and responds)
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Verify web interface authentication is enabledLog into the Cisco Emergency Responder web interface and verify that session cookies are created upon authentication. Check browser developer tools or use: `curl -k -c cookies.txt -d 'username=admin&password=<password>' https://<host>/cerLogin.do` then inspect cookies.txtAffected if Session cookies (JSESSIONID or similar) are created and used for authentication
If your Cisco Emergency Responder version is 8.6 or lower and the CERUserServlet web endpoint is accessible with session-based authentication, you are affected by this CSRF vulnerability.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataApply Cisco-provided patches for CSCun24250; if no patch available, upgrade to a supported version. Implement SameSite cookie attributes and verify Referer headers as compensating controls until patched.
Fix this in Emergency Responder
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Implementation8.0 h
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- Review / QA4.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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