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A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco FXOS Software and...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 20, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrator credentials to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device with elevated privileges. 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. NX-OS versions prior to 8.3(1) are affected. NX-OS versions prior to 8.3(1) are affected.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 16, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Apr 20, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

CVE ID

CVE-2019-1780

GHSA ID

GHSA-gc5x-4wfj-5f6h

Source code

No known source code

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