Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution Command Execution Vulnerability

Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20130109-lms

Revision 1.0

For Public Release 2013 January 9 16:00  UTC (GMT)
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Summary
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Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution (LMS) Virtual Appliance contains a
vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to
execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the root user. The
vulnerability is due to improper validation of authentication and
authorization commands sent to certain TCP ports. An attacker could
exploit this vulnerability by connecting to the affected system and
sending arbitrary commands.

Cisco has released free software updates that address this
vulnerability.
There are no workarounds that mitigate this vulnerability.

This advisory is available at the following link:
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-2013010
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