CVE-2021-1584: A vulnerability in Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode could allow an authenticated, local attacker to…

PriorityP432medium6.7CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRHUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.45%

36.5th percentile

A vulnerability in Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions during the execution of a specific CLI command. An attacker with administrative privileges could exploit this vulnerability by performing a command injection attack on the vulnerable command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to access the underlying operating system as root.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
cisco	cisco_nx-os_system_software_in_aci_mode	—	—
cisco	nexus_9000_series_fabric_switches_aci_mode	—	—
cisco	nx-os	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.7MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.07.2HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

vendor_cisco6.0MEDIUM

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