PT-2017-12517 · Cisco · Cisco Nx-Os+1

Published 2017-11-29 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-12351

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 guest shell feature could allow an authenticated, local attacker to read and send packets outside the scope of the guest shell container. The attacker would need valid administrator credentials to perform this attack. The issue is due to insufficient internal security measures in the guest shell feature, allowing an attacker to exploit it by sending or receiving packets on the device-internal network outside of the guest shell container.

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

Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-668

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-12351

Affected Products

Cisco Nx-Os

Cisco Nexus

References · 5

• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20171129-nxos10 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12351 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-12351 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/102019 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1039932 · Note