Faraday is a tool that introduces a new concept called IPE, or Integrated Penetration-Test Environment. It is a multiuser penetration test IDE designed for distribution, indexation and analysis of the generated data during the process of a security audit. The main purpose of Faraday is to re-use the available tools in the community to take advantage of them in a multiuser way.

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Cisco Security Advisory – A vulnerability in Cisco TelePresence Server devices running software versions 4.1(2.29) through 4.2(4.17) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the device to reload. The vulnerability exists due to a failure of the HTTP parsing engine to handle specially crafted URLs. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending multiple URL requests to an affected device. The requests will eventually time out because negotiation from the client does not occur; however, each request consumes additional memory, resulting in memory exhaustion that causes the device to crash. If successful, the attacker could utilize all available memory resources, causing the device to reload. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. Workarounds that address this vulnerability are not available.

Cisco Security Advisory – A vulnerability in Cisco TelePresence Server devices running software versions 3.0 through 4.2(4.18) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a kernel panic on the device. The vulnerability exists due to a failure to properly handle a specially crafted stream of IPv6 packets. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to cause a kernel panic, rebooting the device. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. Workarounds that mitigate this vulnerability are available.

Cisco Security Advisory – A vulnerability in Cisco TelePresence Server devices running software version 3.1 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to reload the device. The vulnerability exists due to a failure to properly process malformed Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting malformed STUN packets to the device. If successful, the attacker could force the device to reload and drop all calls in the process. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. Workarounds that address this vulnerability are not available.

Cisco Security Advisory – A vulnerability in the implementation of intra-process communication for Cisco UCS Invicta Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to connect to the affected system with the privileges of the root user. The vulnerability is due to the presence of a default SSH private key that is stored in an insecure way on the system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by obtaining the SSH private key and connecting using the root account to the system without providing a password. An exploit could allow the attacker to gain access to the system with the privileges of the root user. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. Workarounds that mitigate this vulnerability are not available.

Cisco Security Advisory – A vulnerability in the application programming interface (API) web interface of Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager (EPNM) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain elevated privileges. The vulnerability is due to improper role-based access control (RBAC) when an unexpected HTTP URL request is received that does not match an expected pattern filter. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request with a modified URL to bypass RBAC settings. An exploit could allow the attacker to gain elevated privileges on the application to view and edit unauthorized data. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. Workarounds are not available.

Cisco Security Advisory – A vulnerability in the web interface of Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager (EPNM) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a targeted system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient sanitization of HTTP user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending an HTTP POST with crafted deserialized user data. An exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code with root-level privileges on the affected system, which could be used to conduct further attacks. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. Workarounds are not available.