PT-2021-2495 · Cisco · Cisco Iox+1

Cyrille Chatras

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Published

2021-03-24

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Updated

2022-08-25

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CVE-2021-1384

CVSS v2.0

8.5

High

VectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Cisco IOS XE Software (affected versions not specified)
Description: A vulnerability in the Cisco IOx application hosting environment could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to inject commands into the underlying operating system as the root user. This issue is due to incomplete validation of fields in the application packages loaded onto IOx. An attacker could exploit this by creating a crafted application .tar file and loading it onto the device, potentially allowing command injection into the underlying operating system as the root user.
Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Command Injection

OS Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

BDU:2021-01871
CVE-2021-1384
GHSA-H332-FJ6P-2232

Affected Products

Cisco Ios Xe
Cisco Iox