Cisco Patches Critical Flaw in Vision Dynamic Signage Director
Cisco this week released a security patch for the Vision Dynamic Signage Director, to address a Critical vulnerability that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary actions on the local system. Tracked as CVE-2019-1917 , the vulnerability was found in the REST API interface of Vision Dynamic Signage Director and could be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication on an affected system. "The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of HTTP requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected system," Cisco explains . An attacker able to exploit the vulnerability would execute arbitrary actions through the REST API with administrative privileges. Enabled by default, the REST API cannot be disabled. ...
