CVE-2018-0115

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-0115
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-01-18 06:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:31:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability in the CLI of the Cisco StarOS operating system for Cisco ASR 5000 Series routers could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on an affected host operating system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting malicious command arguments into a vulnerable CLI command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker would need to authenticate to the affected system by using valid administrator credentials. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf93332.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-78

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Cisco Asr 5000 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 5000 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 5500 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 5500 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 5700 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 5700 - All All All
Operating System Cisco Staros All All All All
Operating System Cisco Staros All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Cisco StarOS for ASR 5000 Series Routers CVE-2018-0115 Local Command Injection Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Cisco StarOS CLI Command Injection Vulnerability CONFIRM tools.cisco.com Vendor Advisory
Cisco ASR 5000 Series Router StartOS CLI Input Validation Flaw Lets Local Users Obtain Root Privileges - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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