A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with the privilege level of root. 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 elevated privileges. An attacker would need valid administrator credentials to exploit this vulnerability.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2019-05-15T19:35:18.903829Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T20:12:08.177Z

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

Link: CVE-2019-1778

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-05-15T20:29:01.243

Modified: 2023-03-01T18:38:23.277

Link: CVE-2019-1778

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