CVE-2019-1591

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application Centric Infrastructure Mode Shell Escape Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Mar 6, 2019
Updated: Nov 20, 2024
Reserved: Dec 6, 2018

Description

A vulnerability in a specific CLI command implementation of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series ACI Mode Switch Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escape a restricted shell on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input when issuing a specific CLI command with parameters on an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the device CLI and issuing certain commands. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to escape the restricted shell and execute arbitrary commands with root-level privileges on the affected device. This vulnerability only affects Cisco Nexus 9000 Series ACI Mode Switches that are running a release prior to 14.0(3d).

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	7.8 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	cisco

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cisco NX-OS Software for Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches ACI ModeCisco	14.0(3d)Affected

References

20190306 Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application Centric Infrastructure Mode Shell Escape Vulnerabilityvendor-advisory
107311vdb-entry

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