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Cisco UCS Manager: CVE-2019-1790: Cisco NX-OS Software Command Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2019-1790)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 15, 2019
Added
Sep 3, 2024
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with valid administrator credentials to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device. The 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 valid administrator credentials to exploit this vulnerability.

Solution

cisco-ucs-manager-upgrade-latest
Title
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