PT-2018-8744 · Cisco · Cisco Nx-Os+1

Published 2018-06-20 · Updated 2020-09-04 · CVE-2018-0313

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.0

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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

Description: A vulnerability in the NX-API feature could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to send a malicious packet to the management interface on an affected system and execute a command-injection exploit. The vulnerability is due to incorrect input validation of user-supplied data to the NX-API subsystem. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious HTTP or HTTPS packet to the management interface of an affected system that has the NX-API feature enabled. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. Note that NX-API is disabled by default.

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

Special Elements Injection

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-74

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-0313

Affected Products

Cisco Nx-Os

Cisco Nexus

References · 4

• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180620-nx-os-api-execution · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0313 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-0313 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1041169 · Note