Unified Computing SystemHardware / appliance · Cisco
CVE-2014-7996
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 · uneditedCross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the web framework in Cisco Integrated Management Controller in Cisco Unified Computing System allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users, aka Bug ID CSCuq45477.
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 confidenceCross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the web framework of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users by tricking authenticated users into submitting malicious requests to the IMC interface.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
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
Unified Computing SystemHardware / appliance
all versionsCVSS 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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Verify Cisco IMC web interface is accessibleDetermine if the Cisco Integrated Management Controller web interface is exposed by checking network connectivity to port 443/80 on IMC-managed nodes. Use browser or curl to confirm the IMC login page loads.Affected if The IMC web interface is reachable over the network and users can authenticate to it.
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Confirm IMC is running without anti-CSRF protectionLog into the IMC web interface and inspect HTML forms in the management interface. Check the source of state-changing forms (such as user management, configuration, or firmware operations) to see if they include anti-CSRF tokens or unique request identifiers.Affected if State-changing operations in the IMC web interface lack anti-CSRF tokens in their forms.
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Check for Origin and Referer header validationCapture HTTP requests sent to the IMC interface using browser developer tools or a proxy. Verify whether the server validates the Origin or Referer headers on POST/PUT/DELETE requests.Affected if The IMC server does not validate Origin or Referer headers on state-changing requests.
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Identify active authenticated sessionsReview active user sessions on the IMC interface through the administrative panel or by checking session management configuration.Affected if Authenticated users have active sessions in the IMC web interface.
A user is affected if the Cisco IMC web interface is accessible and accepts state-changing requests without validating anti-CSRF tokens or Origin/Referer headers.
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 dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens in all state-changing operations, validate Origin/Referer headers, and apply available Cisco patches for this vulnerability.
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Scoped from the published advisory
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- Implementation8.0 h
- Testing6.0 h
- 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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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2014-7996 in production — separate from our analysis above.
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