Severity
Medium
Analysis Summary
CVE-2019-1735
A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges on the underlying operating system of an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to certain CLI commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by including malicious input as the argument of an affected command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with elevated privileges. An attacker would need valid user credentials to exploit this vulnerability.
Impact
- Code Execution
- Privilege escalation
Affected Vendors
Cisco
Affected Products
- Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch for VMware vSphere
- Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch for Microsoft Hyper-V
- UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects
- Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches
Remediation
Refer to cisco advisory for the complete list of affected product and their respective patches.