vulnerability

Cisco NX-OS: Cisco NX-OS Software-Based Products Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting Bypass Vulnerability (CVE-2015-0721)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 6, 2016
Added
Jan 5, 2017
Modified
Sep 21, 2018

Description

Cisco NX-OS 4.0 through 7.3 on Multilayer Director and Nexus 1000V, 2000, 3000, 3500, 4000, 5000, 5500, 5600, 6000, 7000, 7700, and 9000 devices allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended AAA restrictions and obtain privileged CLI access via crafted parameters in an SSH connection negotiation, aka Bug IDs CSCum35502, CSCuw78669, CSCuw79754, and CSCux88492.

Solution

update-nxos
Title
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