CVE-2020-3169

Summary

CVECVE-2020-3169
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-02-26 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-04-20 15:27:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco FXOS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with a privilege level of root on an affected device. 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 root privileges. An attacker would need valid administrator credentials to exploit this vulnerability.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-78

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Cisco Firepower 4110 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 4110 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 4115 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 4115 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 4120 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 4120 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 4125 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 4125 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 4140 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 4140 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 4145 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 4145 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 4150 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 4150 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 9300 Sm-24 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 9300 Sm-24 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 9300 Sm-36 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 9300 Sm-36 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 9300 Sm-40 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 9300 Sm-40 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 9300 Sm-44 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 9300 Sm-44 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 9300 Sm-44 X 3 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 9300 Sm-44 X 3 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 9300 Sm-48 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 9300 Sm-48 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 9300 Sm-56 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 9300 Sm-56 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 9300 Sm-56 X 3 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Firepower 9300 Sm-56 X 3 - All All All
Operating System Cisco Firepower Extensible Operating System All All All All
Operating System Cisco Fxos All All All All
Operating System Cisco Fxos All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Cisco FXOS Software CLI Command Injection Vulnerability CISCO tools.cisco.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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