A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco FXOS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with a privilege level of root on an affected device. 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 root privileges. An attacker would need valid administrator credentials to exploit this vulnerability.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2020-02-26T00:00:00

Updated: 2020-02-26T16:50:55

Reserved: 2019-12-12T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2020-3169

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-02-26T17:15:13.047

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


Link: CVE-2020-3169

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