CVE-2019-1592

Description

A vulnerability in the background operations functionality of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Mode Switch Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain elevated privileges as root on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied files on an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to the CLI of the affected device and creating a crafted file in a specific directory on the filesystem. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary operating system commands as root on an affected device.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.232

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application Centric Infrastructure Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerability For Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 11.0NCM
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application Centric Infrastructure Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerability For Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 11.1NCM
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application Centric Infrastructure Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerability For Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 11.2NCM
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application Centric Infrastructure Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerability For Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 11.3NCM
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application Centric Infrastructure Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerability For Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 12.0NCM
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application Centric Infrastructure Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerability For Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 12.1NCM
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application Centric Infrastructure Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerability For Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 12.2NCM
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application Centric Infrastructure Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerability For Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 12.3NCM
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application Centric Infrastructure Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerability For Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 13.0NCM
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application Centric Infrastructure Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerability For Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 13.1NCM
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application Centric Infrastructure Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerability For Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 13.2NCM
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application Centric Infrastructure Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerability For Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 14.0NCM
Improper Input Validation Vulnerability (CVE-2019-1592)NCM

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-1706157Security Update for Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 11.0 9.2(1)
PATCH-1706159Security Update for Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 11.1 9.2(1)
PATCH-1706161Security Update for Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 11.2 9.2(1)
PATCH-1706163Security Update for Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 11.3 9.2(1)
PATCH-1706165Security Update for Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 12.0 9.2(1)
PATCH-1706167Security Update for Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 12.1 9.2(1)
PATCH-1706169Security Update for Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 12.2 9.2(1)
PATCH-1706171Security Update for Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 12.3 9.2(1)
PATCH-1706173Security Update for Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 13.0 9.2(1)
PATCH-1706175Security Update for Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 13.1 9.2(1)
PATCH-1706176Security Update for Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 13.2 4.0(1a)
PATCH-1703867Security Update for Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 14.0 14.1(1i)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234