Fortinet Discovers Cisco WebEx Network Recording Player Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered an Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability in Cisco WebEx Network Recording Player and WebEx Player.

Cisco WebEx Network Recording Player and WebEx Player are free tools to watch, share, and edit Cisco WebEx recordings developed and published by Cisco Systems for macOS and Windows.

An Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability has been discovered in Cisco WebEx Network Recording Player and WebEx Player. The vulnerability exists because the vulnerable software can't correctly parse a crafted Advanced Recording Format (ARF) and Webex Recording Format (WRF) files.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

Cisco.Webex.NRP.CVE-2019-1773.Arbitrary.Code.Execution
Released Mar 14, 2019

Users should apply the solution provided by Cisco.

Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Cisco on February 12, 2019.

Cisco confirmed the vulnerability on March 5, 2019.

Cisco released patch for the vulnerability on May 15, 2019.

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Yici Wang of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

References

• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190515-webex-player
• CVE-2019-1773

IPS Subscription

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