Cisco Nx-Os Software vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-1965 [HIGH] CWE-400 CVE-2019-1965: A vulnerability in the Virtual Shell (VSH) session management for Cisco NX-OS Software could allow a A vulnerability in the Virtual Shell (VSH) session management for Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a VSH process to fail to delete upon termination. This can lead to a build-up of VSH processes that overtime can deplete system memory. When there is no system memory available, this can cause unexpected system be

CVE-2020-3394 [HIGH] CWE-285 CVE-2020-3394: A vulnerability in the Enable Secret feature of Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 900 A vulnerability in the Enable Secret feature of Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in standalone NX-OS mode could allow an authenticated, local attacker to issue the enable command and get full administrative privileges. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker would need to have valid credentials for the affected d

CVE-2025-20241 [HIGH] CWE-733 CVE-2025-20241: A vulnerability in the Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) feature of Cisco NX-OS Sof A vulnerability in the Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) feature of Cisco NX-OS Software for Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in standalone NX-OS mode could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause the IS-IS process to unexpectedly restart, which could cause an affected device to reload

CVE-2026-20171 [MEDIUM] CWE-670 CVE-2026-20171: A vulnerability in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) enforce-first-as feature of Cisco Nex A vulnerability in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) enforce-first-as feature of Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in standalone NX-OS mode could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger BGP peer flaps, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to incorrect parsing of

CVE-2026-20010 [HIGH] CWE-805 CVE-2026-20010: A vulnerability in the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) feature of Cisco NX-OS Software could al A vulnerability in the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) feature of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause the LLDP process to restart, which could cause an affected device to reload unexpectedly. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of specific fields in an LLDP frame. An attacker could exploit t

CVE-2023-20169 [HIGH] CWE-788 CVE-2023-20169: A vulnerability in the Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) protocol of Cisco NX-OS So A vulnerability in the Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) protocol of Cisco NX-OS Software for the Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in standalone NX-OS mode could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause the IS-IS process to unexpectedly restart, which could cause an affected device to r

CVE-2025-20191 [HIGH] CWE-805 CVE-2025-20191: A vulnerability in the Switch Integrated Security Features (SISF) of Cisco IOS Software, Cisco IOS X A vulnerability in the Switch Integrated Security Features (SISF) of Cisco IOS Software, Cisco IOS XE Software, Cisco NX-OS Software, and Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) AireOS Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to the incorrect h

CVE-2026-20051 [HIGH] CWE-457 CVE-2026-20051: A vulnerability with the Ethernet VPN (EVPN) Layer 2 ingress packet processing of Cisco Nexus 3600 P A vulnerability with the Ethernet VPN (EVPN) Layer 2 ingress packet processing of Cisco Nexus 3600 Platform Switches and Cisco Nexus 9500-R Series Switching Platforms could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to trigger a Layer 2 traffic loop. This vulnerability is due to a logic error when processing a crafted Layer 2 ingress frame. An attac

CVE-2025-20111 [HIGH] CWE-1220 CVE-2025-20111: A vulnerability in the health monitoring diagnostics of Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco N A vulnerability in the health monitoring diagnostics of Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in standalone NX-OS mode could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause the device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to the incorrect handling of s

CVE-2024-20411 [MEDIUM] CWE-267 CVE-2024-20411: A vulnerability in Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with privileges A vulnerability in Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with privileges to access the Bash shell to execute arbitrary code as root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient security restrictions when executing commands from the Bash shell. An attacker with privileges to access the Bash shell could

CVE-2019-1768 [MEDIUM] CWE-119 CVE-2019-1768: A vulnerability in the implementation of a specific CLI command for Cisco NX-OS Software could allow A vulnerability in the implementation of a specific CLI command for Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrator credentials to cause a buffer overflow condition or perform command injection. This could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges on the underlying operating system o

CVE-2019-1767 [MEDIUM] CWE-119 CVE-2019-1767: A vulnerability in the implementation of a specific CLI command for Cisco NX-OS Software could allow A vulnerability in the implementation of a specific CLI command for Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrator credentials to cause a buffer overflow condition or perform command injection. This could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges on the underlying operating system o

CVE-2019-1784 [MEDIUM] CWE-77 CVE-2019-1784: A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to e A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with the privilege level of root. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to a specific CLI command on the affected device. An attacker could exploit this

CVE-2019-1778 [MEDIUM] CWE-78 CVE-2019-1778: A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to e A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with the privilege level of root. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to a specific CLI command on the affected device. An attacker could exploit this

CVE-2019-1776 [MEDIUM] CWE-78 CVE-2019-1776: A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to e A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with a privilege level of root. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to a specific CLI command on the affected device. An attacker could exploit this vu

CVE-2019-1795 [MEDIUM] CWE-77 CVE-2019-1795: A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authentica A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with the privilege level of root. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to a specific CLI command on the affected device. An atta

CVE-2019-1780 [MEDIUM] CWE-77 CVE-2019-1780: A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authentica A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrator credentials to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device with elevated privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to certain CLI com

CVE-2019-1770 [MEDIUM] CWE-78 CVE-2019-1770: A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrator credentials to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with the privilege level of root. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to a specific CLI command on the affected device.

CVE-2024-20291 [MEDIUM] CWE-284 CVE-2024-20291: A vulnerability in the access control list (ACL) programming for port channel subinterfaces of Cisco A vulnerability in the access control list (ACL) programming for port channel subinterfaces of Cisco Nexus 3000 and 9000 Series Switches in standalone NX-OS mode could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send traffic that should be blocked through an affected device. This vulnerability is due to incorrect hardware programming that occurs wh

CVE-2026-20173 [MEDIUM] CWE-770 CVE-2026-20173: A vulnerability in Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to exhaust s A vulnerability in Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to exhaust system resources, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability exists because rate limiting was improperly applied to some protocols. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of UDP or TCP connections to a