According to its self-reported version, Cisco NX-OS Software is affected by vulnerabilities in the CLI that could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device. This 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 administrator credentials to exploit this vulnerability.

Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information

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Cisco NX-OS Software Command Injection Vulnerabilities (cisco-sa-20190515-fxos-nxos-cmdinj-1781-1782)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 129946

Version 1.7