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Cisco FXOS Software Command Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2019-1780)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 129981
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Synopsis
The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patchDescription
According to its self-reported version, Cissco FXOS Software is affected by a vulnerability that allows an authenticated, local attacker with administrator credentials to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device with elevated privileges. 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.Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information
Solution
Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug IDs CSCvi92332See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 129981
File Name: cisco-sa-20190515-fxos-cmdinj-1780.nasl
Version: 1.5
Type: local
Family: CISCO
Published: 10/17/2019
Updated: 3/25/2020
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.2
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1780
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.7
Temporal Score: 5.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:fxos
Required KB Items: installed_sw/FXOS
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2019
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2019
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2019-1780
BID: 108392