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Cisco NX-OS: Cisco FXOS and NX-OS Software Command Injection Vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-1781, CVE-2019-1782)

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Cisco NX-OS: Cisco FXOS and NX-OS Software Command Injection Vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-1781, CVE-2019-1782)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/15/2019
Created
05/24/2019
Added
05/23/2019
Modified
03/06/2023

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to certain CLI commands. 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 operating system with elevated privileges. An attacker would need administrator credentials to exploit this vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • update-nxos

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