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Cisco NX-OS Software Command Injection Vulnerability

Published May 15, 2019

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrator credentials to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with the privilege level of root. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to a specific CLI command on the affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by including malicious input as the argument of an affected command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with elevated privileges. An attacker would need valid administrator credentials to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (2)

References (2)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner cisco
Published May 15, 2019
Updated Nov 20, 2024
Reserved Dec 6, 2018
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Nov 20, 2024
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a