PT-2017-12504 · Cisco · Cisco Nx-Os System+1

Published 2017-11-29 · Updated 2017-12-17 · CVE-2017-12339

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.7

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco NX-OS System Software (affected versions not specified)

Description A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS System Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform a command injection attack. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of command arguments to the CLI parser. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting crafted command arguments into a vulnerable CLI command. An exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands at the user's privilege level. On products that support multiple virtual device contexts (VDCs), this vulnerability could allow the attacker to execute commands at the user's privilege level outside the user's environment.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-77

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-12339

Affected Products

Cisco Nx-Os System

Cisco Nexus

References · 5

• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20171129-nxos7 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12339 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-12339 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/102198 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1039938 · Note