SSLv3 Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption in Cisco ASA Software (cisco-sa-20141015-poodle) (POODLE)

low Nessus Plugin ID 78750

Synopsis

The remote device is affected by a man-in-the-middle (MitM) information disclosure vulnerability known as POODLE.

Description

The remote Cisco ASA device is affected by a man-in-the-middle (MitM) information disclosure vulnerability known as POODLE. The vulnerability is due to the way SSL 3.0 handles padding bytes when decrypting messages encrypted using block ciphers in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode. A MitM attacker can decrypt a selected byte of a cipher text in as few as 256 tries if they are able to force a victim application to repeatedly send the same data over newly created SSL 3.0 connections.

Note that all versions of ASA are affected; however, the workaround does not work for versions 8.0.x, 8.1.x, 9.0.x, and 9.1(1)x. Please refer to the advisory or contact the vendor for possible solutions.

Solution

Apply the workaround by disabling SSLv3 referenced in the Cisco bug ID CSCur23709, or contact the vendor.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7453d3be

https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCur23709

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/10/14/poodle.html

https://www.openssl.org/~bodo/ssl-poodle.pdf

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-00

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 78750

File Name: cisco-sa-20141015-poodle-asa.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 10/30/2014

Updated: 6/23/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3566

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.4

Temporal Score: 3.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/ASA

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3566

BID: 70574

CERT: 577193

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20141015-poodle

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCur23709