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Cisco Data Center Network Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Published Jul 16, 2020

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions during the execution of an affected CLI command. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating as the fmserver user and submitting malicious input to a specific command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to root and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system.

Affected products

Remediation

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Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

References (1)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner cisco
Published Jul 16, 2020
Updated Nov 15, 2024
Reserved Dec 12, 2019
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Nov 15, 2024
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a