CVE-2012-4076 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2012-4076?

CVE-2012-4076 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Cisco Nx-Os, published on 14 Oct 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Cisco NX-OS allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a command that calls the system library function, aka Bug IDs CSCtf23559 and CSCtf27780.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-4076?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Nx-Os.

How do I fix CVE-2012-4076?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-4076 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2012-4076 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-4076 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2018-0301 Memory corruption in Cisco NX-OS unknown Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-1453 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-1341 Hardcoded credentials in n/a Critical 9.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-m5w6-mh6x-jq9c.