Cisco Secure Acs Download: How to Upgrade and Migrate from Older ACS Versions

They change the offerings frequently. The OP was whether one could pull it from the download site. I'm not seeing it there as of today but that can also vary according to your account level (i.e partner IDs may show different offerings than customers and guests see still other information).

I need to upgrade my current acs 4.2.0 to 4.2.1, multi docs say that i can just download the software from the cisco web site. However, on the cisco web site I found two version non appears to be the correct one.

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I have successfully download and installed ACS 4.2.1. However, that still not resolve my problem. The issue is a VMware Machine on ESX 3 server. Machine keeps dropping out of the network(not responding to ping for a short period,but quiet often), it is the only machine on the ESX server doing that! According to some research on google, 4.2.0 may have a memory leak that can causes the issue. So I decided to upgrade to 4.2.1. Oviously, the upgrade is not the fixe for me. Has anyone out there experience the same issue with ACS 4.2.0 OR 4.2.1 on ESX server?

The vulnerability is due to insecure deserialization of user-supplied content by the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted serialized Java object. An exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the device with root privileges.

Cisco has released free software updates that address the vulnerability described in this advisory. Customers may only install and expect support for software versions and feature sets for which they have purchased a license. By installing, downloading, accessing, or otherwise using such software upgrades, customers agree to follow the terms of the Cisco software license: -user-license-agreement.html

Additionally, customers may only download software for which they have a valid license, procured from Cisco directly, or through a Cisco authorized reseller or partner. In most cases this will be a maintenance upgrade to software that was previously purchased. Free security software updates do not entitle customers to a new software license, additional software feature sets, or major revision upgrades.

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This vulnerability is fixed in Cisco Secure ACS 5.8.0.32.9 Cumulative Patch. The software can be downloaded from the Software Center on Cisco.com by navigating to Products > Security > Network Visibility and Enforcement > Secure Access Control System > Secure Access Control System 5.8.

Download your SSL certificate and support files by clicking on the download link in your fulfillment email or from your GeoCerts SSL Manager account. Unzip the files and copy them into the directory where you will keep your certificates. Some files in the zip may or may not be used depending on your server type.

Test your SSL certificate by using a browser to connect to your server. Use the https protocol directive. For example, if your SSL was issued to secure.mysite.com, enter into your browser.

Have you tried downloading it again and applying it?Have you created a fresh VM and following the above instructions step by step?When you say its not valid, can you provide the error message provided and at what steps this happens.

The story is I've got a customer who wants dot1x with ACS5 and I need abox to play with before breaking their network; having read through thedocs on cisco.com I noticed that vmware was a supported platform forevaluation, as awesome as that is, carrying around an ESXi server isn'tas convenient as you'd think so I boldly dropped the CD into myVirtualBox and booted to see what happened.... if only it was thatsimple!!!!!

Messing with the kickstart file and having to rebuild the ISO each timegot boring very quickly, especially since it wouldn't boot into anacondastage two. I decided to move to a network based installed, I setup a webserver on my laptop, downloadedCentOS-4.7-i386-bin1of4.isoand booted my guest from that using linux askmethod at the loader. Onmy web server I copied the contents of the ACS CD into a directory(including . hidden files), during the centos boot I was able toinstall "everything" from the ACS directory on web server giving me yetmore limited success (Everything was installed - including the Ciscopackages - but unusable).

The next step was to get my web installation to read my kickstart file,the ks.cfg has a load of finalization which looked like it created filesthat the cisco packages would need. I had to change the permissions ofthe directory to give me write access (CD files copied as RO since theCD was RO). So my edited ks.cfg has nothing between %pre & %postplus the %include line deleted, the result had massive drawback, I'dinadvertently removed the disk layout; I have since concluded that myearlier attempt with everything installed but broke also had issues dueto incorrect filesystem partitions.

You can configure a RADIUS server to download an access list to the security appliance or an access list name at the time of authentication. The user is authorized to do only what is permitted in the user-specific access list.

2. If Cisco Secure ACS successfully authenticates the user, Cisco Secure ACS returns a RADIUS access-accept message that contains the internal name of the applicable downloadable access list. The Cisco IOS cisco-av-pair RADIUS VSA (vendor 9, attribute 1) contains the following attribute-value pair to identify the downloadable access list set:

ACS:CiscoSecure-Defined-ACL=acI-sefc-name where acl-set-name is the internal name of the downloadable access list, which is a combination of the name assigned to the access list by the Cisco Secure ACS administrator and the date and time that the access list was last modified.

- If the security appliance has previously received the named downloadable access list, communication with Cisco Secure ACS is complete and the security appliance applies the access list to the user session. Because the name of the downloadable access list includes the date and time it was last modified, matching the name sent by Cisco Secure ACS to the name of an access list previous downloaded means that the security appliance has the most recent version of the downloadable access list.

- If the security appliance has not previously received the named downloadable access list, it may have an out-of-date version of the access list or it may not have downloaded any version of the access list. In either case, the security appliance issues a RADIUS authentication request using the downloadable access list name as the username in the RADIUS request and a null password attribute. In a cisco-av-pair RADIUS VSA, the request also includes the following attribute-value pairs:

4. Upon receipt of a RADIUS authentication request that has a username attribute containing the name of a downloadable access list, Cisco Secure ACS authenticates the request by checking the Message-Authenticator attribute. If the Message-Authenticator attribute is missing or incorrect, Cisco Secure ACS ignores the request. The presence of the Message-Authenticator attribute prevents malicious use of a downloadable access list name to gain unauthorized network access. The Message-Authenticator attribute and its use are defined in RFC 2869, RADIUS Extensions, available at

Cisco Secure ACS sends the downloadable access list in a cisco-av-pair RADIUS VSA. The access list is formatted as a series of attribute-value pairs that each contain an ACE and are numbered serially:

6. If the access list required is more than approximately 4 KB in length, Cisco Secure ACS responds with an access-challenge message that contains a portion of the access list, formatted as described above, and an State attribute (IETF RADIUS attribute 24), which contains control data used by Cisco Secure ACS to track the progress of the download. Cisco Secure ACS fits as many complete attribute-value pairs into the cisco-av-pair RADIUS VSA as it can without exceeding the maximum RADIUS message size.

The security appliance stores the portion of the access list received and responds with another access-request message containing the same attributes as the first request for the downloadable access list plus a copy of the State attribute received in the access-challenge message.

In the cisco-av-pair VSA, configure one or more ACEs that are similar to the access-list extended command (see the "Adding an Extended Access List" section on page 16-5), except that you replace the following command prefix:

The nnn argument is a number in the range from 0 to 999999999 that identifies the order of the command statement to be configured on the security appliance. If this parameter is omitted, the sequence value is 0, and the order of the ACEs inside the cisco-av-pair RADIUS VSA is used.

Downloaded access lists have two spaces between the word "access-list" and the name. These spaces serve to differentiate a downloaded access list from a local access list. In this example, "79AD4A08" is a hash value generated by the security appliance to help determine when access list definitions have changed on the RADIUS server.

If a RADIUS server provides downloadable access lists to Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrators as well as to the security appliance, you may need the security appliance to convert wildcard netmask expressions to standard netmask expressions. This is because Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrators support wildcard netmask expressions but the security appliance only supports standard netmask expressions. Configuring the security appliance to convert wildcard netmask expressions helps minimize the effects of these differences upon how you configure downloadable access lists on your RADIUS servers. Translation of wildcard netmask expressions means that downloadable access lists written for Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrators can be used by the security appliance without altering the configuration of the downloadable access lists on the RADIUS server. 2ff7e9595c