CVE-2019-1779

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 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 device credentials to exploit this vulnerability.

Link	Resource
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190515-nxos-fxos-cmdinj-1779	Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108394	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

Configuration 1

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Published : 2019-05-15 08:29

Updated : 2020-10-16 04:13

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NVD link : CVE-2019-1779

Mitre link : CVE-2019-1779

Cisco

Nx-os

CWE-88