Fortinet Discovers Cisco WebEx Network Recording Player Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Summary
Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Cisco WebEx Network Recording Player.
Cisco WebEx Network Recording Player is a free tool to watch, share, and edit Cisco WebEx recordings developed and published by Cisco Systems for macOS and Windows.
A memory corruption vulnerability has been discovered in Cisco WebEx Network Recording Player. The vulnerability exists because the vulnerable software can't correctly parse a crafted arf file which causes an out-of-bounds memory access. It could allow malicious users to create remote code execution scenarios.
Solutions
FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:Cisco.Webex.NRP.Remote.Code.Execution
Released Jul 06, 2018
Users should apply the solution provided by Cisco Systems.
Timeline
Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Cisco on February 15, 2018.
Cisco confirmed the Vulnerability on June 05, 2018.
Cisco released the Patch for it on July 18, 2018.