CVE-2019-1783

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-1783
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-05-15 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-10-16 17:07:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrator credentials to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with the privilege level of root. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to a specific CLI command on the affected device. 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 Linux operating system with elevated privileges. An attacker would need valid administrator credentials to exploit this vulnerability.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-88

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5548p - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5548p - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5548up - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5548up - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5596t - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5596t - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5596up - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5596up - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 56128p - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 56128p - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5624q - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5624q - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5648q - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5648q - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5672up - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5672up - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5696q - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5696q - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 6001 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 6001 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 6004 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 6004 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 7000 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 7000 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 7700 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 7700 - All All All
Operating System Cisco Nx-os All All All All
Operating System Cisco Nx-os All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Cisco NX-OS Software Command Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2019-1783) CISCO tools.cisco.com Vendor Advisory
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.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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