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TITLE:
CiscoWorks Common Services Home Page Component Command Injection
Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46533

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-10-20

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability have been reported in CiscoWorks Common Services,
which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable
system.

Certain unspecified input passed via the URL to the CiscoWorks Home
Page component is not properly sanitised before being used. This can
be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands.

Note: This only affects CiscoWorks Common Services running on
Windows.

Please see the vendor's advisory for a list of affected products and
versions.

SOLUTION:
Update to a fixed version (please see vendor's advisory for details).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Noam Rathaus, Beyond Security.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20111019-cs

OTHER REFERENCES:
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