PT-2019-2370 · Cisco · Cisco Nx-Os+1

Published 2019-05-15 · Updated 2023-03-24 · CVE-2019-1770

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 with administrator credentials to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with the privilege level of root. The issue is due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to a specific CLI command on the affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by including malicious input as the argument of an affected command, potentially allowing them to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with elevated privileges.

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

BDU:2019-02145

CVE-2019-1770

Affected Products

Cisco Nx-Os

Cisco Nexus

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1770 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-1770 · Vendor Advisory
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190515-nxos-cmdinj-1770 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-02145 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/108376 · Note