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.

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.

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According to its self-reported version, Cisco NX-OS Software is affected by a command injection vulnerability due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to a specific CLI command on an affected device. An authenticated, local attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with root privileges.

Please see the included Cisco BID and Cisco Security Advisory for more information.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to its self-reported version, Cisco FXOS Software is affected by a command injection vulnerability due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to a specific CLI command on an affected device. An authenticated, local attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with root privileges.

Please see the included Cisco BID and Cisco Security Advisory for more information.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
501406	Cisco FXOS and NX-OS Software Command Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2019-1795)	Tenable OT Security	Tenable.ot	Remote	medium
131698	Cisco NX-OS Software Command Injection (cisco-sa-20190515-nxos-cmdinj-1795)	Nessus	CISCO	Combined	medium
131697	Cisco FXOS Software Command Injection (cisco-sa-20190515-nxos-cmdinj-1795)	Nessus	CISCO	Local	medium

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CVE-2019-1795

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