CVE-2021-1578

Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Aug 25, 2021
Updated: Nov 7, 2024
Reserved: Nov 13, 2020

Description

A vulnerability in an API endpoint of Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) and Cisco Cloud Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (Cloud APIC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges to Administrator on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to an improper policy default setting. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using a non-privileged credential for Cisco ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO) to send a specific API request to a managed Cisco APIC or Cloud APIC device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain Administrator credentials on the affected device.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	cisco

Weaknesses

CWE-636

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)Cisco	n/aAffected

References

20210825 Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilityvendor-advisory

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