PT-2019-2449 · Cisco · Cisco Nx-Os+1

Published 2019-05-15 · Updated 2020-10-16 · CVE-2019-1791

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 with elevated privileges 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.

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

Command Injection

RCE

Argument Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-77

CWE-20

CWE-88

Related Identifiers

BDU:2019-02227

CVE-2019-1791

Affected Products

Cisco Nx-Os

Cisco Nexus

References · 5

• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190515-nxos-cmdinj-1791 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-02227 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1791 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-1791 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/108390 · Note