A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrator credentials 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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-10340 A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrator credentials 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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Wed, 20 Nov 2024 18:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published:

Updated: 2024-11-20T17:20:14.395Z

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

Link: CVE-2019-1783

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T18:28:42.745Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-05-15T20:29:01.510

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:37:22.200

Link: CVE-2019-1783

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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