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CVE-2019-1783

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrator credentials to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with the privilege level of root. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to a specific CLI command on the affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by including malicious input as the argument of an affected command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with elevated privileges. An attacker would need valid administrator credentials to exploit this vulnerability.

Published

2019-05-15T20:29:01.510

Last Modified

2024-11-21T04:37:22.200

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 6.7 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

  • Access Vector: LOCAL
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact: COMPLETE
Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses
  • Type: Secondary
    CWE-77
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-88
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Operating System cisco nx-os < 7.3\(4\)n1\(1\) Yes
Hardware cisco nexus_5548p - No
Hardware cisco nexus_5548up - No
Hardware cisco nexus_5596t - No
Hardware cisco nexus_5596up - No
Hardware cisco nexus_56128p - No
Hardware cisco nexus_5624q - No
Hardware cisco nexus_5648q - No
Hardware cisco nexus_5672up - No
Hardware cisco nexus_5696q - No
Hardware cisco nexus_6001 - No
Hardware cisco nexus_6004 - No
Operating System cisco nx-os < 7.3\(3\)d1\(1\) Yes
Operating System cisco nx-os < 8.3\(1\) Yes
Hardware cisco nexus_7000 - No
Hardware cisco nexus_7700 - No
References