A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device with elevated privileges. 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 device credentials to exploit this vulnerability.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2019-05-15T19:40:16.540228Z

Updated: 2024-11-21T19:26:22.386Z

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

Link: CVE-2019-1779

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-05-15T20:29:01.320

Modified: 2023-04-20T15:27:48.130

Link: CVE-2019-1779

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