Hosted Collaboration SolutionApplication · Cisco

CVE-2015-0741

MEDIUM · 6.8 CVSS v2.0 Published 2015-05-21
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to after 10.6 or later.
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77/100
Remediation priority · High
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click

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 · unedited
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Cisco Prime Central for Hosted Collaboration Solution (PC4HCS) 10.6(1) and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users, aka Bug ID CSCut04596.

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 · moderate confidence

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Cisco Prime Central for Hosted Collaboration Solution (PC4HCS) 10.6(1) and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users by tricking authenticated users into submitting malicious requests.

MitigationImplement anti-CSRF tokens for all state-changing operations, validate Origin/Referer headers, and configure SameSite cookie attributes to prevent CSRF exploitation.

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
Hosted Collaboration SolutionApplication
Affected:<= 10.6\(1\)

CVSS 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 checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Identify if Cisco PC4HCS is installed
    Check your system for Cisco Prime Central for Hosted Collaboration Solution installation. Look for the product name in installed software, running processes, or system documentation.
    Affected if The product is not installed on the system.
  2. Determine the installed version of PC4HCS
    Access the Cisco PC4HCS command line interface or web console and retrieve the version number. Typically done via 'show version' command in CLI or checking the About section in the web interface.
    Affected if The installed version is 10.6(1) or earlier.
  3. Verify the web management interface is accessible
    Check if the Cisco PC4HCS web interface ports (typically HTTPS on port 443 or 8443) are open and reachable from network segments where untrusted users could send requests.
    Affected if The web interface is exposed to untrusted networks without proper network segmentation.
  4. Inspect session cookies for SameSite attribute
    Using browser developer tools or a proxy, capture a login response to the PC4HCS web interface and examine the session cookies for the SameSite attribute.
    Affected if Cookies lack SameSite=Strict or SameSite=Lax attributes.

You are affected if Cisco PC4HCS version 10.6(1) or earlier is installed and its web interface is accessible, with session cookies lacking SameSite protection.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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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 data
Upgrade available Upgrade to a release after 10.6
Interim mitigation

Implement anti-CSRF tokens for all state-changing operations, validate Origin/Referer headers, and configure SameSite cookie attributes to prevent CSRF exploitation.

Fix this in Hosted Collaboration Solution Scoped from the published advisory
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  • Implementation16.0 h
  • Testing8.0 h
  • Review / QA4.0 h
32.0 hours of engineering $5,600
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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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