High risk.. Is there a virus on the device you are using.. Important warning issued by the indian government..
India's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has issued an advisory on three serious vulnerabilities in networking company Cisco's products that allow hackers to gain access, infiltrate computer systems and steal data.Vulnerabilities in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software could allow attackers with root-level privileges to unexpectedly reload the device and execute arbitrary commands and code in the underlying operating system. of service (DoS), CERT-In said in its latest advisory.
The reported software has a 'Command Injection Vulnerability' where the contents of the backup file are improperly purged at restore time. "An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by restoring a formatted backup file on an affected device," the cyber agency said. Another 'Denial of service vulnerability' is due to incomplete error checking when parsing the HTTP header. A third, 'code execution vulnerability' is due to incorrect validation of a file when the system reads it from flash memory. According to the cyber agency, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability by copying "formatted file disk 0: to the file system of the affected device". Additionally, CERT-In advises people to apply the appropriate updates released by Cisco.
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