Vulnerability Spotlight: Vulnerability in Manage Engine OpManager could lead to XXE attack

Summary: Cisco Talos researcher Marcin Noga discovered an XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability, tracked as TALOS-2022-1685 and CVE-2022-43473, in ManageEngine OpManager network monitoring software. The flaw triggers when a user adds a unified computing system (UCS) to the software, and an attacker can supply a specially crafted malicious XML file at an exact point in that connection process to carry out an XXE attack against backend or external systems OpManager accesses.
Why it matters: Talos confirmed version 12.6.168 of OpManager is exploitable, so any organization running that version has a known, tested path for an attacker to reach systems behind the monitoring server until it updates. Talos also released Snort rule 49864 to detect exploitation attempts, which only helps if the traffic is being inspected.

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Topics: Vulnerabilities & Patching
Mentions: CVE-2022-43473
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