CVE-2019-1585

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application-Centric Infrastructure Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 6.7 Medium
Published: Mar 6, 2019
Updated: Nov 20, 2024
Reserved: Dec 6, 2018

Description

A vulnerability in the controller authorization functionality of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series ACI Mode Switch Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate standard users with root privilege on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a misconfiguration of certain sudoers files for the bashroot component on an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the affected device with a crafted user ID, which may allow temporary administrative access to escalate privileges. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to escalate privileges on an affected device. This Vulnerability has been fixed in version 4.0(1h)

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	6.7 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	cisco

Weaknesses

CWE-16

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cisco NX-OS Software for Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches ACI ModeCisco	before 4.0(1h)Affected

References

20190306 Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application-Centric Infrastructure Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilityvendor-advisory
107312vdb-entry

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