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CVE-2019-1592

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application Centric Infrastructure Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 14.1(1i)
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

A vulnerability in the background operations functionality of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Mode Switch Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain elevated privileges as root on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied files on an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to the CLI of the affected device and creating a crafted file in a specific directory on the filesystem. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary operating system commands as root on an affected device.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Cisco Cisco NX-OS Software for Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches ACI Mode 11.0.1b

    fixed in 14.1(1i)

References 1

tools.cisco.com