PT-2019-2366 · Cisco · Cisco Nx-Os+1

Published 2019-05-15 · Updated 2020-10-16 · CVE-2019-1735

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

Description The issue is related to insufficient validation of arguments passed to certain CLI commands, which could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges on the underlying operating system of an affected device. An attacker could exploit this 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. The attacker would need valid user credentials to exploit this issue.

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

Command Injection

Argument Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-77

CWE-88

Related Identifiers

BDU:2019-02141

CVE-2019-1735

Affected Products

Cisco Nx-Os

Cisco Nexus

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1735 · Security Note
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190515-nxos-cmdinj-1735 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-02141 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-1735 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/108365 · Note