CVE-2019-1585

published 2019-03-06

CVE-2019-1585: A vulnerability in the controller authorization functionality of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series ACI Mode Switch Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker…

Priority P3 40 high 7.8 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

A vulnerability in the controller authorization functionality of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series ACI Mode Switch Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate standard users with root privilege on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a misconfiguration of certain sudoers files for the bashroot component on an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the affected device with a crafted user ID, which may allow temporary administrative access to escalate privileges. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to escalate privileges on an affected device. This Vulnerability has been fixed in version 4.0(1h)

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
cisco	application_policy_infrastructure_controller_software	<= 4.0\(1h\)	—
cisco	cisco_nx-os_software_for_nexus_9000_series_fabric_switches_aci_mode	>= unspecified < 4.0(1h)	4.0(1h)
cisco	nexus_9000_series_fabric_switches_application-centric_infrastructure_mode	—	—
cisco	nx-os	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.2 HIGH AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

vendor_cisco 6.7 MEDIUM

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