CVE-2019-1972

Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
6.7 Medium
Published
Aug 8, 2019
Updated
Nov 20, 2024
Reserved
Dec 6, 2018

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Description

A vulnerability the Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS) restricted CLI could allow an authenticated, local attacker with valid administrator-level credentials to elevate privileges and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system as root. The vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions during the execution of an affected CLI command. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by leveraging the insufficient restrictions during the execution of an affected command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system as root.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.06.7 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hcisco

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure SoftwareCisco
  • before n/aAffected

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