cisco-sa-20190306-nxos-cmdinj-1612: Cisco NX-OS Software CLI Command Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2019-1612)

First published: Wed Mar 06 2019(Updated: )

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device. 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 administrator credentials to exploit this vulnerability. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190306-nxos-cmdinj-1612 This bundle contains several similar CLI command injection vulnerabilities; they differ primarily in which products and software versions are affected. See Details for more information.

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