Cisco Prime Infrastructure Certificate Validation Vulnerability
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Spoofing
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-295.
Summary
A vulnerability in the Identity Services Engine (ISE) integration feature of Cisco Prime Infrastructure (PI) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack against the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) tunnel established between ISE and PI. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of the server SSL certificate when establishing the SSL tunnel with ISE. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using a crafted SSL certificate and could then intercept communications between the ISE and PI. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to view and alter potentially sensitive information that the ISE maintains about clients that are connected to the network. This vulnerability affects Cisco Prime Infrastructure Software Releases 2.2 through 3.4.0 when the PI server is integrated with ISE, which is disabled by default.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Cisco Prime Infrastructure (Cisco) Fixed in 3.5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2019-1659
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5vxf-pm6w-9vfm
References
More Cisco Prime Infrastructure vulnerabilities
- TI-2018-10941 Cisco Prime Infrastructure Arbitrary File Upload and Command Execution Vulnerability CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2023-23979 The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2019-01444 Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Evolved Programmable Network Manager Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2018-00219 Path traversal in Cisco Prime File Upload Servlet CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2016-01184 Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.2.0 through 2.2(2) and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2016-01182 The API in Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.2 through 3.0 and Evolved Programmable Network… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2019-1659 · CVE Program
- CVE-2019-1659 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-5vxf-pm6w-9vfm · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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