CVE-2019-1779

 

Published at: - 15-05-2019 10:29

Last modified: - 27-09-2022 02:58

Total changes: - 2

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device with elevated privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to certain CLI commands. 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 operating system with elevated privileges. An attacker would need valid device credentials to exploit this vulnerability.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

 

Verification logic

 

Reference

• 20190515 Cisco FXOS and NX-OS Software Command Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2019-1779)-Vendor Advisory
• 108394-Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

 

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