CVE-2019-15018 Tenant authentication bypass in Zingbox Inspector

Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories / CVE-2019-15018

CVE-2019-15018 Tenant authentication bypass in Zingbox Inspector

Severity 7.5 · HIGH

Attack Vector NETWORK

Scope UNCHANGED

Attack Complexity LOW

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Privileges Required NONE

Integrity Impact HIGH

User Interaction NONE

Availability Impact NONE

CVE JSON

Published 2019-10-01

Updated 2019-10-01

Reference PAN-SA-2019-0030

Discovered internally

Description

A security vulnerability exists in the Zingbox Inspector where authentication is not required when binding the Inspector instance to a different customer tenant. (Ref: CVE-2019-15018)

The vulnerability allows a user to bind the Zingbox Inspector to another tenant, which can impact the functionality of the service.

This issue affects Zingbox Inspector, versions 1.280 and earlier.

Product Status

Versions	Affected	Unaffected
Zingbox Inspector 1	<= 1.280	>= 1.281

Severity: HIGH

CVSSv3.1 Base Score: 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Weakness Type

CWE-287 Improper Authentication

Solution

Zingbox Inspector, version 1.281 and later.

Workarounds and Mitigations

In the normal course of operation, Zingbox Inspector automatically updates its own software, and a fixed version of software has already been made available. No user action is required unless the software is unable to update itself. Customers still running affected versions of Zingbox Inspector software can mitigation this issue by updating to a patched version, or by disabling the console access that can be used to run CLI commands. See product documentation for more information on how to disable console access.

Acknowledgments

Note: This security issue was found during an internal security audit performed during the Palo Alto Networks acquisition of Zingbox. The issues discovered during this process have been addressed in software updates as described in the published Zingbox security advisories.