A vulnerability in the controller authorization functionality of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series ACI Mode Switch Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate standard users with root privilege on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a misconfiguration of certain sudoers files for the bashroot component on an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the affected device with a crafted user ID, which may allow temporary administrative access to escalate privileges. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to escalate privileges on an affected device. This Vulnerability has been fixed in version 4.0(1h)
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2019-03-06T21:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T01:25:45.666Z

Reserved: 2018-12-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-1585

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Status : Modified

Published: 2019-03-06T21:29:00.323

Modified: 2019-10-09T23:47:23.080

Link: CVE-2019-1585

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