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TITLE:
Cisco Show and Share Security Bypass Security Issue and File Upload
Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46465

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-10-21

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DESCRIPTION:
A security issue and a vulnerability have been reported in Cisco Show
and Share, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a
vulnerable system and by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.

1) An error due to the application not verifying credentials for
certain administrative pages can be exploited to gain access to the
Encoders and Pull Configurations, Push Configurations, Video Encoding
Formats, and Transcoding pages.

2) An error due to the application not verifying uploaded files can
be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the web
server.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires the privileges
to upload videos.

The security issue and vulnerability are reported in versions 5.2,
5.2.1, and 5.2.2.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 5.2.2.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Andy Yang and Mehdi Kiani, stratsec.

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

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