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Medium · 5.8 CVE-2021-34749 EUVD-2021-21399GHSA-x64m-mg53-f49j

Multiple Cisco Products Server Name Identification Data Exfiltration Vulnerability

Published Aug 18, 2021 · Updated Nov 7, 2024 · Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in Server Name Identification (SNI) request filtering of Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD), and the Snort detection engine could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass filtering technology on an affected device and exfiltrate data from a compromised host. This vulnerability is due to inadequate filtering of the SSL handshake. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using data from the SSL client hello packet to communicate with an external server. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute a command-and-control attack on a compromised host and perform additional data exfiltration attacks.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) — —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 11 snort 2.9.20-0+deb11u1 DSA-5354-1
Debian 10 snort 2.9.20-0+deb10u1 DLA-3317-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS snort No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS snort No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS snort No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS snort No fix yet —
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS snort No fix yet —

Advisories 3

References