Riskcovery

CVE-2024-20449

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Oct 2, 2024
Updated
Oct 2, 2024
Reserved
Nov 8, 2023

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Description

A vulnerability in Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with low privileges to execute arbitrary code on an affected device.

This vulnerability is due to improper path validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using the Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) to upload malicious code to an affected device using path traversal techniques. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code in a specific container with the privileges of root.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hcisco

Weaknesses

  • CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Data Center Network ManagerCisco
  • 12.1(1)Affected
  • 12.0.1aAffected
  • 12.0.2dAffected
  • 12.0.2fAffected
  • 12.1.1Affected
  • 12.1.1eAffected
  • 12.1.1pAffected
  • 12.1.2eAffected
  • 12.1.2pAffected
  • 12.1.3bAffected
  • 12.2.1Affected

References

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