CVE-2018-0324 Command injection in Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software

Medium 6.7 Published Updated

An authenticated local attacker can execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux OS via crafted CLI parameters in Cisco NFVIS.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
An administrator
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2018-0324?

CVE-2018-0324 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software, published on 17 May 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS) could allow an authenticated, high-privileged, local attacker to perform a command injection attack. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of command parameters in the CLI parser. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by invoking a vulnerable CLI command with crafted malicious parameters. An exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with a non-root user account on the underlying Linux operating system of the affected device. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvi09723.

Weakness: CWE-78, CWE-77

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-0324?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure.

How do I fix CVE-2018-0324?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-0324 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-2018-0324 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-0324 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-vv93-cqwf-9gjp.

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