PT-2019-15250 · Cisco · Cisco Nx-Os+1

Published 2019-05-15 · Updated 2023-03-01 · CVE-2019-1774

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/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 CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device. This issue 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, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with elevated privileges. The attacker would need valid administrator credentials to exploit this vulnerability.

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

OS Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-78

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-1774

Affected Products

Cisco Nx-Os

Cisco Nexus

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1774 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-1774 · Vendor Advisory
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190515-nxos-cmdinj-1774-1775 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/108371 · Note