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Cisco FXOS Software Command Injection (cisco-sa-20190306-nxos-cmdinj-1611)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 131699

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco FXOS Software is affected by a command injection vulnerability due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to certain CLI commands. An authenticated, local attacker with valid administrator credentials can exploit this by including malicious input as the argument of an affected command in order to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with elevated privileges.

Please see the included Cisco BIDs 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 ID CSCvk65447.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?326bae04

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvk65447

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 131699

File Name: cisco-sa-20190306-fxos-cmdinj-1611.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 12/4/2019

Updated: 1/9/2020

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-2019-1611

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:/a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense

Required KB Items: installed_sw/FXOS

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1611

BID: 107381