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Case Study: SSHtranger Things (CVE-2019-6111, CVE-2019-6110) in Cisco SD-WAN

MAL-008: SSHtranger Things (CVE-2019-6111, CVE-2019-6110) in Cisco SD-WAN

Cisco SD-WAN v20.4.2.1 uses an old version of SSH (OpenSSH_7.6p1) that is susceptible to the “SSHtranger Things” attack. If a victim tries to connect to a malicious/compromised SSH server this attack may be used to write/overwrite sensitive files.

By overwriting sensitive script files (e.g. “.bashrc”) this may allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain Remote Code Execution (RCE) on the victim’s system.

Vendor Disclosure:

The vendor's disclosure and fix for this vulnerability can be found here.

Requirements:

This vulnerability requires:

• Successful SSH MITM
  OR
• Social engineering to convince a legitimate SD-WAN user to connect to a malicious SSH server

Proof Of Concept:

More details and the exploitation process can be found in this PDF.

Additional Information:

PoC for CVE-2019-6111 and CVE-2019-6110