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CVE-2019-1592

Published: May 3, 2019

Modified: Nov 20, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

7.8

HIGH

Description

A vulnerability in the background operations functionality of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Mode Switch Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain elevated privileges as root on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied files on an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to the CLI of the affected device and creating a crafted file in a specific directory on the filesystem. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary operating system commands as root on an affected device.

VendorProductVersions

Cisco

Cisco NX-OS Software for Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches ACI Mode 11.0.1b

affected
unspecified - < 14.1(1i)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-264

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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