Finding Cisco IOS XE CVE-2023-20198 With ConfigSources
On October 16, 2023, Cisco published a vulnerability that affects IOS XE machines running the built-in web server:https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-iosxe-webui-privesc-j22SaA4z This is tracked ashttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20198 By adding a simple Config Check to an existing Cisco IOS ConfigSource, LogicMonitor can help people quickly identify which resources have the web server enabled. Here is an example: Name: Cisco-CSCwh87343-Check Check type: "Use Groovy Script" Groovy script: /* The built-in string variable 'config' contains the entire contents of the configuration file. The following example will trigger an alert when the configuration file contains the string "blue". if (config.contains("blue")) { return 1; } else { return 0; } */ if (config.contains("ip http")) { return 1; } else { return 0; } Then trigger this type of alert: Warning Description: "Search for presence of Cisco CSCwh87343 vulnerability" Caveats: -This will apply to all devices where the ConfigSource is used, even though all devices may not be affected by the vulnerability -This assumes usage of ConfigSources and specifically the Cisco_iOS ConfigSource Thanks to Todd Ritter for finding this CVE and Creating the ConfigSource