CVE-2021-1583

Description

A vulnerability in the fabric infrastructure file system access control of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode could allow an authenticated, local attacker to read arbitrary files on an affected system. This vulnerability is due to improper access control. An attacker with Administrator privileges could exploit this vulnerability by executing a specific vulnerable command on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read arbitrary files on the file system of the affected device.

Risk Information

Base Score
4.4
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.157

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches ACI Mode Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability For Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI ModeNCM
CVE-2021-1583NCM

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-1706155Security Update for Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode 5.2(1)SV5(1.3b)

References

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