Skip to content
CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.0 Medium

CVE-2021-1584

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches ACI Mode Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description

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 products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Cisco Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode

  • n/aaffected

References