PT-2019-1555 · Cisco · Cisco Nx-Os+1

Published

2019-03-06

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Updated

2020-10-05

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CVE-2019-1609

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

VectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco NX-OS Software versions prior to 6.2(22) Cisco NX-OS Software versions prior to 6.2(27) Cisco NX-OS Software versions prior to 7.0(3)I4(9) Cisco NX-OS Software versions prior to 7.0(3)I7(6) Cisco NX-OS Software versions prior to 7.0(3)F3(5) Cisco NX-OS Software versions prior to 7.3(3)D1(1) Cisco NX-OS Software versions prior to 8.1(1b) Cisco NX-OS Software versions prior to 8.2(3) Cisco NX-OS Software versions prior to 8.3(2)
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. 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 administrator credentials to exploit this vulnerability.
Recommendations For versions prior to 6.2(22), update to a fixed version to resolve the issue. For versions prior to 6.2(27), update to a fixed version to resolve the issue. For versions prior to 7.0(3)I4(9), update to a fixed version to resolve the issue. For versions prior to 7.0(3)I7(6), update to a fixed version to resolve the issue. For versions prior to 7.0(3)F3(5), update to a fixed version to resolve the issue. For versions prior to 7.3(3)D1(1), update to a fixed version to resolve the issue. For versions prior to 8.1(1b), update to a fixed version to resolve the issue. For versions prior to 8.2(3), update to a fixed version to resolve the issue. For versions prior to 8.3(2), update to a fixed version to resolve the issue.

Fix

Command Injection

Argument Injection

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

BDU:2019-01085
CVE-2019-1609

Affected Products

Cisco Nx-Os
Cisco Nexus