Telepresence Mse 8000 SeriesHardware / appliance · Cisco
CVE-2015-4258
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 on Cisco TelePresence MSE 8000 devices allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users, aka Bug ID CSCuu90444.
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 confidenceCross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Cisco TelePresence MSE 8000 allows remote attackers to hijack authentication of arbitrary users by tricking authenticated users into unknowingly submitting malicious requests to the device's web 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
Telepresence Mse 8000 SeriesHardware / 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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Confirm Cisco TelePresence MSE 8000 is deployedIdentify if the Cisco TelePresence MSE 8000 Series appliance or virtual instance is running in your environment by checking inventory systems, network scans for the device's management IP, or by accessing the device's web interface and reviewing the system information page.Affected if The device is present in your environment and exposes its web management interface.
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Verify the web interface is accessibleAttempt to access the Cisco TelePresence MSE 8000 web interface on the standard HTTPS port (typically 443) or check network firewall rules to determine if TCP ports for the web UI are open to users or networks.Affected if The web management interface is reachable from network segments where authenticated users operate.
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Inspect for anti-CSRF token implementationLog into the web interface and perform a state-changing operation (such as creating a user or modifying a setting), then examine the HTTP requests and responses using browser developer tools or a proxy. Check if each POST request includes a unique anti-CSRF token parameter that changes per session.Affected if State-changing requests do not contain anti-CSRF tokens or unique session-bound tokens, meaning the application does not validate the authenticity of requests.
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Check for Origin/Referer header validationSubmit a state-changing request with a manipulated Origin or Referer header (for example, from an external domain) using a tool like Burp Suite or curl, and observe whether the request is rejected or processed.Affected if Requests with mismatched or missing Origin/Referer headers are accepted and processed by the server.
You are affected if you have a Cisco TelePresence MSE 8000 with its web interface exposed and the application lacks anti-CSRF token validation and Origin/Referer header checks on state-changing operations.
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 for all state-changing operations, validate Origin/Referer headers on server-side, and configure SameSite cookie attributes to prevent cross-site request forgery.
Fix this in Telepresence Mse 8000 Series
Scoped from the published advisory
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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-2015-4258 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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