CVE-2021-1584

Summary

CVECVE-2021-1584
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-08-25 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:28:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability in Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions during the execution of a specific CLI command. An attacker with administrative privileges could exploit this vulnerability by performing a command injection attack on the vulnerable command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to access the underlying operating system as root.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-78

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9000 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9000v - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 92160yc-x - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 92300yc - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 92304qc - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 92348gc-x - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9236c - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9272q - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93108tc-ex - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93108tc-ex-24 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93108tc-fx - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93108tc-fx-24 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93108tc-fx3p - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93120tx - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93128tx - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9316d-gx - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93180lc-ex - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93180yc-ex - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93180yc-ex-24 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93180yc-fx - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93180yc-fx-24 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93180yc-fx3 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93180yc-fx3s - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93216tc-fx2 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93240yc-fx2 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9332c - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9332pq - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93360yc-fx2 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9336c-fx2 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9336c-fx2-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9348gc-fxp - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93600cd-gx - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9364c - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9364c-gx - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9372px - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9372px-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9372tx - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9372tx-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9396px - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9396tx - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9508 - All All All
Operating System Cisco Nx-os 14.2\(7f\) All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches ACI Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CISCO tools.cisco.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 317022 Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches ACI Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (cisco-sa-naci-mdvul-vrKVgNU)
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