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Plain-English summary
Cisco Umbrella Dashboard once failed to invalidate an existing web session after a user changed credentials in another authenticated session. A remote attacker who already had authenticated access and an active session could keep Dashboard access through that session. Cisco says it addressed the issue and no user action is required.
Executive priority
Prioritize as a historical high-severity SaaS control issue, not an emergency deployment task. Cisco states the issue has been addressed with no user action required, but organizations should confirm whether they had Dashboard exposure and whether any suspicious admin sessions occurred at the time.
Technical view
CVE-2019-1807 is a CWE-384 session management weakness in the Cisco Umbrella Dashboard web UI. The CVSS 3.0 score is 7.6. Attack prerequisites include network access, low privileges, user interaction, and a separate active authenticated session. Successful exploitation could affect confidentiality and integrity, with limited availability impact.
Likely exposure
Exposure is limited to Cisco Umbrella Dashboard users affected before Cisco addressed the SaaS-side issue. The source does not identify specific affected versions, tenant scope, or customer-side patch requirements.
Exploitation context
The source bundle does not report active exploitation, and the CVE is not marked KEV. Exploitation requires an authenticated active session and depends on session state remaining valid after credential changes.
Researcher notes
Do not infer affected versions or exploit availability from the public bundle. The key behavior is failure to invalidate existing sessions after credential changes from another authenticated session. Validation should focus on historical tenant use, session logs, and Cisco guidance.
Mitigation direction
- Review Cisco advisory cisco-sa-20190501-udb-sm for current vendor guidance.
- Treat Cisco's stated remediation as authoritative unless newer Cisco guidance says otherwise.
- Confirm no local patching is expected; Cisco says no user action is required.
- Document historical exposure for Cisco Umbrella Dashboard use around May 2019.
Validation and detection
- Confirm whether the organization used Cisco Umbrella Dashboard before Cisco's May 2019 advisory.
- Check identity and access logs for suspicious retained Dashboard sessions around credential changes.
- Verify current Cisco Umbrella Dashboard access follows internal admin access policies.
- Record that affected versions are unspecified in the available public source bundle.
Public sources used
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.6 (3.0)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
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CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L2.15.5Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.0 score
7.6HighVector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- 20190501 Cisco Umbrella Dashboard Session Management VulnerabilityCVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO
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Session Fixation
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