CVE-2012-4121 — Cisco NX-OS allows local users to gain privileges, and read or modify arbitrary files, via the sed (1) r and (2) w commands, aka Bug IDs CSCts56559, CSCts56565, CSCts56570, and CSCts56574

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Cisco NX-OS allows local users to gain privileges, and read or modify arbitrary files, via the sed (1) r and (2) w commands, aka Bug IDs CSCts56559, CSCts56565, CSCts56570, and CSCts56574

Published Oct 14, 2013

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.30%

Description

Cisco NX-OS allows local users to gain privileges, and read or modify arbitrary files, via the sed (1) r and (2) w commands, aka Bug IDs CSCts56559, CSCts56565, CSCts56570, and CSCts56574.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.30% 0.00300

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00300

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (13 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.30% (0.00300)	20.57th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.30% (0.00300)	21.46th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.08% (0.00080)	21.26th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.24% (0.00245)	65.11th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.47th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jan 17, 2024	0.24% (0.00245)	62.51th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Aug 26, 2023	0.08% (0.00085)	35.22th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 9, 2023	0.06% (0.00060)	23.39th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (1)

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2012-4121
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2012-4121		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner cisco

Published Oct 14, 2013

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Jul 31, 2012

Link CVE-2012-4121

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2012-4121

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2012-4121