PT-2019-1556 · Cisco · Cisco Nx-Os+1
Published
2019-03-06
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Updated
2020-10-05
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CVE-2019-1608
CVSS v2.0
7.2
High
| 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 versions prior to 6.2(27)
Cisco NX-OS Software versions prior to 6.2(22)
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(1)
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(27), update to a version that includes the fix for this vulnerability.
For versions prior to 6.2(22), update to a version that includes the fix for this vulnerability.
For versions prior to 7.3(3)D1(1), update to a version that includes the fix for this vulnerability.
For versions prior to 8.1(1b), update to a version that includes the fix for this vulnerability.
For versions prior to 8.2(3), update to a version that includes the fix for this vulnerability.
For versions prior to 8.3(1), update to a version that includes the fix for this vulnerability.
Fix
Command Injection
Argument Injection
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Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Cisco Nx-Os
Cisco Nexus