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CVE-2019-1585

Published: Mar 6, 2019

Modified: Nov 20, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

6.7

MEDIUM

Description

A vulnerability in the controller authorization functionality of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series ACI Mode Switch Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate standard users with root privilege on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a misconfiguration of certain sudoers files for the bashroot component on an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the affected device with a crafted user ID, which may allow temporary administrative access to escalate privileges. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to escalate privileges on an affected device. This Vulnerability has been fixed in version 4.0(1h)

VendorProductVersions

Cisco

Cisco NX-OS Software for Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches ACI Mode

affected
unspecified - < 4.0(1h)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-16

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

107312
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