Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-2015-4235)

high Tenable OT Security Plugin ID 502778

Synopsis

The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) devices with software before 1.0(3o) and 1.1 before 1.1(1j) and Nexus 9000 ACI devices with software before 11.0(4o) and 11.1 before 11.1(1j) do not properly restrict access to the APIC filesystem, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain root privileges via unspecified use of the APIC cluster-management configuration feature, aka Bug IDs CSCuu72094 and CSCuv11991.

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Solution

Refer to the vendor advisory.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 502778

Version: 1.2

Type: remote

Family: Tenable.ot

Published: 12/4/2024

Updated: 12/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Tenable OT Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-4235

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os:11.0%281b%29, cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os:11.0%281e%29, cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os:11.0%282m%29, cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os:11.0%283n%29, cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os:11.0%282j%29, cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os:11.0%283k%29, cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os:11.0%284h%29, cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os:11.0%281d%29, cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os:11.0%281c%29, cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os:11.0%283i%29, cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os:11.0%283f%29

Required KB Items: Tenable.ot/Cisco

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4235

CWE: 264

Detections

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