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 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.
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2019-05-15T00:00:00

Updated: 2019-05-28T16:06:05

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


Link: CVE-2019-1795

JSON object: View

cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-05-15T21:29:03.367

Modified: 2023-04-20T14:50:20.990


Link: CVE-2019-1795

JSON object: View

cve-icon Redhat Information

No data.