Cisco NX-OS Software Multiple Vulnerabilities (cisco-sa-20190515-nxos-cmdinj-1774-1775)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130916

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco NX-OS Software is affected by two command injection vulnerabilities due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to certain CLI commands. An authenticated, local attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with elevated 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.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug IDs CSCvh75895, CSCvh75909, CSCvh75968, CSCvh75976, CSCvi92256, CSCvi92258, CSCvi92260, CSCvi99195, CSCvi99197, and CSCvi99198.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130916

File Name: cisco-sa-20190515-nxos-cmdinj-1774-1775.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 11/13/2019

Updated: 4/11/2024

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-2019-1775

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:nx-os

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/NX-OS/Version, Host/Cisco/NX-OS/Model, Host/Cisco/NX-OS/Device

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1774, CVE-2019-1775

BID: 108371

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20190515-nxos-cmdinj-1774-1775

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvh75895, CSCvh75909, CSCvh75968, CSCvh75976, CSCvi92256, CSCvi92258, CSCvi92260, CSCvi99195, CSCvi99197, CSCvi99198

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