CVE-2019-1780 Cisco FXOS and NX-OS Software Command Injection Vulnerability
Authenticated local attackers with admin credentials can execute arbitrary OS commands with elevated privileges via CLI argument injection in Cisco NX-OS.
- 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-2019-1780?
CVE-2019-1780 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Cisco Firepower Extensible Operating System, published on 16 May 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 CLI of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrator credentials to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device with elevated privileges. 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 administrator credentials to exploit this vulnerability. NX-OS versions prior to 8.3(1) are affected. NX-OS versions prior to 8.3(1) are affected.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-1780?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Cisco Firepower Extensible Operating System, Cisco Nx-Os.
How do I fix CVE-2019-1780?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-1780 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-2019-1780 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-1780 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Firepower Extensible Operating System
- CVE-2018-0310 Information disclosure in Cisco FXOS and NX-OS unknown
- CVE-2015-6435 Command injection in n/a
- CVE-2021-1368 Memory corruption in Cisco NX-OS Software
- CVE-2020-3456 Cisco FXOS Software Firepower Chassis Manager Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability
- CVE-2020-3172 Cisco FXOS and NX-OS Software Cisco Discovery Protocol Arbitrary Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerability
All Cisco Firepower Extensible Operating System vulnerabilities
Sources
Also known as GHSA-gc5x-4wfj-5f6h.