A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrator credentials to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2019-05-15T20:15:27.487532Z

Updated: 2024-11-20T17:19:55.964Z

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

Link: CVE-2019-1791

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-05-15T21:29:03.303

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:37:23.437

Link: CVE-2019-1791

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