CVE-2012-4131 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2012-4131?

CVE-2012-4131 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Cisco Nx-Os, published on 21 Dec 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Directory traversal vulnerability in tar in Cisco NX-OS allows local users to access arbitrary files via crafted command-line arguments, aka Bug IDs CSCty07157, CSCty07159, CSCty07162, and CSCty07164.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-4131?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Nx-Os.

How do I fix CVE-2012-4131?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-4131 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2012-4131 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-4131 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2024-20399 Cisco NX-OS Command Injection Exploited Medium 6.0
• CVE-2021-1361 Cisco NX-OS Software Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Actions Vulnerability Critical 9.8
• 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

All Cisco Nx-Os vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8qxr-jmjm-2c23.