CVE-2019-1588 Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches Application-Centric Infrastructure Mode Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

What is CVE-2019-1588?

CVE-2019-1588 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Cisco Nx-Os, published on 6 Mar 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches running in Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode could allow an authenticated, local attacker to read arbitrary files on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a lack of proper input and validation checking mechanisms of user-supplied input sent to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker unauthorized access to read arbitrary files on an affected device. This vulnerability has been fixed in version 14.0(1h).

Weakness: CWE-269, CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-1588?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Nx-Os.

How do I fix CVE-2019-1588?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-1588 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-2019-1588 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-1588 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-27v4-h6gj-f3w5.