PT-2019-2455 · Cisco · Cisco Nx-Os+2

Published 2019-05-15 · Updated 2020-10-16 · CVE-2019-1782

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 FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software (affected versions not specified)

Description A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device. This 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, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with elevated privileges. The attacker would need administrator credentials to exploit this vulnerability.

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:2019-02233

CVE-2019-1782

Affected Products

Cisco Fxos

Cisco Nx-Os

Cisco Nexus

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1782 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-1782 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-02233 · Security Note
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190515-fxos-nxos-cmdinj-1781-1782 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/108407 · Note