CVE-2020-3225 - Improper Input Validation

Severity

86%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

66%

Multiple vulnerabilities in the implementation of the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) feature of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerabilities are due to insufficient input processing of CIP traffic. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending crafted CIP traffic to be processed by an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.6. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Demo Examples

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

This example demonstrates a shopping interaction in which the user is free to specify the quantity of items to be purchased and a total is calculated.


               
...

The user has no control over the price variable, however the code does not prevent a negative value from being specified for quantity. If an attacker were to provide a negative value, then the user would have their account credited instead of debited.

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

This example asks the user for a height and width of an m X n game board with a maximum dimension of 100 squares.


               
.../* board dimensions */
die("No integer passed: Die evil hacker!\n");
die("No integer passed: Die evil hacker!\n");
die("Value too large: Die evil hacker!\n");

While this code checks to make sure the user cannot specify large, positive integers and consume too much memory, it does not check for negative values supplied by the user. As a result, an attacker can perform a resource consumption (CWE-400) attack against this program by specifying two, large negative values that will not overflow, resulting in a very large memory allocation (CWE-789) and possibly a system crash. Alternatively, an attacker can provide very large negative values which will cause an integer overflow (CWE-190) and unexpected behavior will follow depending on how the values are treated in the remainder of the program.

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

The following example shows a PHP application in which the programmer attempts to display a user's birthday and homepage.


               
echo "Birthday: $birthday<br>Homepage: <a href=$homepage>click here</a>"

The programmer intended for $birthday to be in a date format and $homepage to be a valid URL. However, since the values are derived from an HTTP request, if an attacker can trick a victim into clicking a crafted URL with <script> tags providing the values for birthday and / or homepage, then the script will run on the client's browser when the web server echoes the content. Notice that even if the programmer were to defend the $birthday variable by restricting input to integers and dashes, it would still be possible for an attacker to provide a string of the form:


               
2009-01-09--

If this data were used in a SQL statement, it would treat the remainder of the statement as a comment. The comment could disable other security-related logic in the statement. In this case, encoding combined with input validation would be a more useful protection mechanism.

Furthermore, an XSS (CWE-79) attack or SQL injection (CWE-89) are just a few of the potential consequences when input validation is not used. Depending on the context of the code, CRLF Injection (CWE-93), Argument Injection (CWE-88), or Command Injection (CWE-77) may also be possible.

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

This function attempts to extract a pair of numbers from a user-supplied string.


               
}
die("Did not specify integer value. Die evil hacker!\n");
/* proceed assuming n and m are initialized correctly */

This code attempts to extract two integer values out of a formatted, user-supplied input. However, if an attacker were to provide an input of the form:


               
123:

then only the m variable will be initialized. Subsequent use of n may result in the use of an uninitialized variable (CWE-457).

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

The following example takes a user-supplied value to allocate an array of objects and then operates on the array.


               
}
list[0] = new Widget();
die("Negative value supplied for list size, die evil hacker!");

This example attempts to build a list from a user-specified value, and even checks to ensure a non-negative value is supplied. If, however, a 0 value is provided, the code will build an array of size 0 and then try to store a new Widget in the first location, causing an exception to be thrown.

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

This application has registered to handle a URL when sent an intent:


               
}......
}
}
int length = URL.length();
...

The application assumes the URL will always be included in the intent. When the URL is not present, the call to getStringExtra() will return null, thus causing a null pointer exception when length() is called.

Overview

Type

Cisco IOS

First reported 4 years ago

2020-06-03 18:15:00

Last updated 4 years ago

2020-06-09 18:45:00

Affected Software

Cisco IOS 12.2(44)EX

12.2\(44\)ex

Cisco IOS 12.2(44)EX1

12.2\(44\)ex1

Cisco IOS 12.2(46)SE1

12.2\(46\)se1

Cisco IOS 12.2(46)SE2

12.2\(46\)se2

Cisco IOS 12.2(50)SE

12.2\(50\)se

Cisco IOS 12.2(50)SE1

12.2\(50\)se1

Cisco IOS 12.2(50)SE2

12.2\(50\)se2

Cisco IOS 12.2(50)SE3

12.2\(50\)se3

Cisco IOS 12.2(50)SE4

12.2\(50\)se4

Cisco IOS 12.2(50)SE5

12.2\(50\)se5

Cisco IOS 12.2 (52)SE

12.2\(52\)se

Cisco IOS 12.2 (52)SE1

12.2\(52\)se1

Cisco IOS 12.2(55)SE

12.2\(55\)se

Cisco IOS 12.2(55)SE3

12.2\(55\)se3

Cisco IOS 12.2(55)SE4

12.2\(55\)se4

Cisco IOS 12.2(55)SE5

12.2\(55\)se5

Cisco IOS 12.2(55)SE6

12.2\(55\)se6

Cisco IOS 12.2(55)SE7

12.2\(55\)se7

Cisco IOS 12.2(55)SE9

12.2\(55\)se9

Cisco IOS 12.2(55)SE10

12.2\(55\)se10

Cisco IOS 12.2(55)SE11

12.2\(55\)se11

Cisco IOS 12.2(58)SE

12.2\(58\)se

Cisco IOS 12.2(58)SE1

12.2\(58\)se1

Cisco IOS 12.2(58)SE2

12.2\(58\)se2

Cisco IOS 15.0(1)EY

15.0\(1\)ey

Cisco IOS 15.0(1)EY1

15.0\(1\)ey1

Cisco IOS 15.0(1)EY2

15.0\(1\)ey2

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)EK

15.0\(2\)ek

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)EK1

15.0\(2\)ek1

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)EX2

15.0\(2\)ex2

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)EX8

15.0\(2\)ex8

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)EY

15.0\(2\)ey

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)EY1

15.0\(2\)ey1

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)EY2

15.0\(2\)ey2

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)EY3

15.0\(2\)ey3

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)SE

15.0\(2\)se

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)SE1

15.0\(2\)se1

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)SE2

15.0\(2\)se2

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)SE3

15.0\(2\)se3

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)SE4

15.0\(2\)se4

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)SE5

15.0\(2\)se5

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)SE6

15.0\(2\)se6

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)SE7

15.0\(2\)se7

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)SE8

15.0\(2\)se8

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)SE9

15.0\(2\)se9

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)SE10

15.0\(2\)se10

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)SE10A

15.0\(2\)se10a

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)SE11

15.0\(2\)se11

Cisco IOS 15.2(1)EY

15.2\(1\)ey

Cisco IOS 15.2(2)E

15.2\(2\)e

Cisco IOS 15.2(2)E1

15.2\(2\)e1

Cisco IOS 15.2(2)E2

15.2\(2\)e2

Cisco IOS 15.2(2)E3

15.2\(2\)e3

Cisco IOS 15.2(2)E4

15.2\(2\)e4

Cisco IOS 15.2(2)E5

15.2\(2\)e5

Cisco IOS 15.2(2)E5A

15.2\(2\)e5a

Cisco IOS 15.2(2)E5B

15.2\(2\)e5b

Cisco IOS 15.2(2)E6

15.2\(2\)e6

Cisco IOS 15.2(2)E7

15.2\(2\)e7

Cisco IOS 15.2(2)EA2

15.2\(2\)ea2

Cisco IOS 15.2(2)EA3

15.2\(2\)ea3

Cisco IOS 15.2(2)EB2

15.2\(2\)eb2

Cisco IOS 15.2(3)E1

15.2\(3\)e1

Cisco IOS 15.2(3)E3

15.2\(3\)e3

Cisco IOS 15.2(3)E5

15.2\(3\)e5

Cisco IOS 15.2(3)EA

15.2\(3\)ea

Cisco IOS 15.2(4)EA

15.2\(4\)ea

Cisco IOS 15.2(4)EA1

15.2\(4\)ea1

Cisco IOS 15.2(4)EA3

15.2\(4\)ea3

Cisco IOS 15.2(4)EA4

15.2\(4\)ea4

Cisco IOS 15.2(4)EC1

15.2\(4\)ec1

Cisco IOS 15.2(4)EC2

15.2\(4\)ec2

Cisco IOS 15.2(4)JAZ1

15.2\(4\)jaz1

Cisco IOS 15.2(5)E1

15.2\(5\)e1

Cisco IOS 15.2(5)E2

15.2\(5\)e2

Cisco IOS 15.2(5)E2C

15.2\(5\)e2c

Cisco IOS 15.2(5)EA

15.2\(5\)ea

Cisco IOS 15.2(5A)E1

15.2\(5a\)e1

Cisco IOS 15.2(7)E

15.2\(7\)e

Cisco IOS 15.2(7)E0s

15.2\(7\)e0s

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JA1

15.3\(3\)ja1

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JA1N

15.3\(3\)ja1n

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JA4

15.3\(3\)ja4

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JA5

15.3\(3\)ja5

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JA6

15.3\(3\)ja6

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JA7

15.3\(3\)ja7

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JA8

15.3\(3\)ja8

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JA10

15.3\(3\)ja10

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JAA

15.3\(3\)jaa

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JAX

15.3\(3\)jax

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JAX1

15.3\(3\)jax1

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JAX2

15.3\(3\)jax2

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JB

15.3\(3\)jb

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JBB

15.3\(3\)jbb

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JBB1

15.3\(3\)jbb1

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JBB2

15.3\(3\)jbb2

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JBB4

15.3\(3\)jbb4

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JBB5

15.3\(3\)jbb5

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JBB6

15.3\(3\)jbb6

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JBB6A

15.3\(3\)jbb6a

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JBB8

15.3\(3\)jbb8

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JC

15.3\(3\)jc

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JC1

15.3\(3\)jc1

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JN

15.3\(3\)jn

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JN1

15.3\(3\)jn1

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JN2

15.3\(3\)jn2

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JN3

15.3\(3\)jn3

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JN4

15.3\(3\)jn4

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JN7

15.3\(3\)jn7

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JN8

15.3\(3\)jn8

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JN9

15.3\(3\)jn9

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JNB

15.3\(3\)jnb

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JNB1

15.3\(3\)jnb1

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JNB2

15.3\(3\)jnb2

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JNB3

15.3\(3\)jnb3

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JNB4

15.3\(3\)jnb4

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JNC

15.3\(3\)jnc

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JNC1

15.3\(3\)jnc1

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JNC2

15.3\(3\)jnc2

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JNC3

15.3\(3\)jnc3

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JND

15.3\(3\)jnd

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JNP

15.3\(3\)jnp

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JNP1

15.3\(3\)jnp1

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JNP3

15.3\(3\)jnp3

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JPB1

15.3\(3\)jpb1

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JPC

15.3\(3\)jpc

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JPC1

15.3\(3\)jpc1

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JPC2

15.3\(3\)jpc2

Cisco IOS XE 3.6.5BE

3.6.5be

Cisco IOS XE16.9.1

16.9.1

Cisco IOS XE 16.11.1

16.11.1

Cisco IOS XE 16.12.1

16.12.1

Cisco IOS XE 16.10.1

16.10.1

Cisco IOS 12.2(55)SE12

12.2\(55\)se12

Cisco IOS 12.2(55)SE13

12.2\(55\)se13

Cisco IOS 12.2(55)SE13A

12.2\(55\)se13a

Cisco IOS 12.2(60)EZ16

12.2\(60\)ez16

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)SE12

15.0\(2\)se12

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)SE13

15.0\(2\)se13

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)SE13A

15.0\(2\)se13a

Cisco IOS 15.0(2)SG11A

15.0\(2\)sg11a

Cisco IOS 15.2(2)E7B

15.2\(2\)e7b

Cisco IOS 15.2(2)E8

15.2\(2\)e8

Cisco IOS 15.2(2)E9

15.2\(2\)e9

Cisco IOS 15.2(2)E10

15.2\(2\)e10

Cisco IOS 15.2(2B)E

15.2\(2b\)e

Cisco IOS 15.2(4)E9

15.2\(4\)e9

Cisco IOS 15.2(4)E10

15.2\(4\)e10

Cisco IOS 15.2(4)EA2

15.2\(4\)ea2

Cisco IOS 15.2(4)EA6

15.2\(4\)ea6

Cisco IOS 15.2(4)EA7

15.2\(4\)ea7

Cisco IOS 15.2(4)EA8

15.2\(4\)ea8

Cisco IOS 15.2(4)EA9

15.2\(4\)ea9

Cisco IOS 15.2(4)JAZ

15.2\(4\)jaz

Cisco IOS 15.2(6)E

15.2\(6\)e

Cisco IOS 15.2(6)E0A

15.2\(6\)e0a

Cisco IOS 15.2(6)E0C

15.2\(6\)e0c

Cisco IOS 15.2(6)E1

15.2\(6\)e1

Cisco IOS 15.2(6)E1A

15.2\(6\)e1a

Cisco IOS 15.2(6)E1S

15.2\(6\)e1s

Cisco IOS 15.2(6)E2A

15.2\(6\)e2a

Cisco IOS 15.2(6)E3

15.2\(6\)e3

Cisco IOS 15.2(6)EB

15.2\(6\)eb

Cisco IOS 15.2(7)E0B

15.2\(7\)e0b

Cisco IOS 15.2(7A)E0B

15.2\(7a\)e0b

Cisco IOS 15.2(7b)e0b

15.2\(7b\)e0b

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JA12

15.3\(3\)ja12

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JAA1

15.3\(3\)jaa1

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JC8

15.3\(3\)jc8

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JC9

15.3\(3\)jc9

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JC14

15.3\(3\)jc14

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JD5

15.3\(3\)jd5

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JD6

15.3\(3\)jd6

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JD8

15.3\(3\)jd8

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JD9

15.3\(3\)jd9

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JD11

15.3\(3\)jd11

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JD12

15.3\(3\)jd12

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JD13

15.3\(3\)jd13

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JD14

15.3\(3\)jd14

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JD16

15.3\(3\)jd16

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JF

15.3\(3\)jf

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JF2

15.3\(3\)jf2

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JF4

15.3\(3\)jf4

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JF5

15.3\(3\)jf5

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JF6

15.3\(3\)jf6

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JF7

15.3\(3\)jf7

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JF8

15.3\(3\)jf8

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JF9

15.3\(3\)jf9

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JF13

15.3\(3\)jf13

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JF99

15.3\(3\)jf99

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JG

15.3\(3\)jg

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JG1

15.3\(3\)jg1

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JH

15.3\(3\)jh

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JH1

15.3\(3\)jh1

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JI1

15.3\(3\)ji1

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JK1A

15.3\(3\)jk1a

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JK1T

15.3\(3\)jk1t

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JK2A

15.3\(3\)jk2a

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JK3

15.3\(3\)jk3

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JN6

15.3\(3\)jn6

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JN11

15.3\(3\)jn11

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JN13

15.3\(3\)jn13

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JN14

15.3\(3\)jn14

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JN15

15.3\(3\)jn15

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JNB5

15.3\(3\)jnb5

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JPC5

15.3\(3\)jpc5

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JPI

15.3\(3\)jpi

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JPI3

15.3\(3\)jpi3

Cisco IOS 15.3(3)JPJ

15.3\(3\)jpj

Cisco IOS XE 3.8.9E

3.8.9e

Cisco IOS XE 3.8.10E

3.8.10e

Cisco IOS XE 3.10.3E

3.10.3e

Cisco IOS XE 16.6.7A

16.6.7a

Cisco IOS XE 16.6.8

16.6.8

Cisco IOS XE 16.9.1D

16.9.1d

Cisco IOS XE 16.9.4C

16.9.4c

Cisco IOS XE 16.9.5

16.9.5

Cisco IOS XE 16.9.5F

16.9.5f

Cisco IOS XE 16.10.1E

16.10.1e

Cisco IOS XE 16.10.1G

16.10.1g

Cisco IOS XE 16.10.2

16.10.2

Cisco IOS XE 16.10.3

16.10.3

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