PT-2020-1369 · Cisco · Cisco Data Center Network Manager

Published 2020-01-02 · Updated 2020-01-08 · CVE-2019-15979

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.0

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns multiple vulnerabilities in the REST and SOAP API endpoints of Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM), allowing an authenticated, remote attacker with administrative privileges to inject arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. This is due to the lack of measures to neutralize special elements used in the operating system command. Exploitation could enable a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands in the host operating system by sending a specially crafted malicious request.

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:2020-00317

CVE-2019-15979

ZDI-20-100

Affected Products

Cisco Data Center Network Manager

References · 5

• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-100 · Security Note
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20200102-dcnm-comm-inject · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15979 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-00317 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-15979 · Vendor Advisory