Fortinet Discovers Cisco WebEx Products Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Cisco WebEx products.

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.

A memory corruption vulnerability has been discovered in these Cisco WebEx products. 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.Arbitrary.Code.Execution.CVE-2019-1929
Released Jun 21, 2019

Users should apply the solution provided by Cisco Systems.

Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Cisco Systems on June 11, 2019. 

Cisco Systems confirmed the vulnerability on June 11, 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-20190807-webex-player
• CVE-2019-1929

IPS Subscription

Fortinet customers who subscribe to Fortinet's intrusion prevention (IPS) service should be protected against this vulnerability with the appropriate configuration parameters in place. Fortinet's IPS service is one component of FortiGuard Subscription Services, which also offer comprehensive solutions such as antivirus, Web content filtering and antispam capabilities. These services enable protection against threats on both application and network layers. FortiGuard Services are continuously updated by FortiGuard Labs, which enables Fortinet to deliver a combination of multi-layered security intelligence and true zero-day protection from new and emerging threats. These updates are delivered to all FortiGate, FortiMail and FortiClient products. Fortinet strictly follows responsible disclosure guidelines to ensure optimum protection during a threat's lifecycle.