CVE-2019-1790

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with valid administrator credentials 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.

SeverityMEDIUM
CVSS6.7
EPSS0.11% EPSS low
CWECWE-77
KEV
Published
Modified

Public Affected Products

Product Advisory Evidence
Cisco Unified Computing System (Managed) cisco-sa-20190515-nxos-cmdinj-1790 Cisco CSAF ยท structured affected