Cisco FXOS Software Command Injection (cisco-sa-20191002-fxos-cmd-inject)

high Nessus Plugin ID 135295

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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 multiple vulnerabilities in the CLI due to insufficient input validation. An unauthenticated, local attacker can exploit this, by including crafted arguments to specific commands, in order to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying OS with root privileges.

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

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version in the referenced Cisco bug IDs.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135295

File Name: cisco-sa-20191002-fxos-cmd-inject.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 4/10/2020

Updated: 4/13/2020

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-2019-12699

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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: 10/2/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12699

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20191002-fxos-cmd-inject

IAVA: 2019-A-0370

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvm14277, CSCvm14279, CSCvm25813, CSCvm25894, CSCvo42621, CSCvo42651, CSCvo83496

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