Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Cisco NX-OS System Software Patch Installation Command Injection Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS System Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform a command injection attack. An attacker would need valid administrator credentials to perform this exploit.

The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation during the installation of a software patch. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by installing a crafted patch image with the vulnerable operation occurring prior to patch activation. An exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on an affected system as root.

There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

This advisory is available at the following link:
http://ift.tt/2Ali9mg
Security Impact Rating: Medium
CVE: CVE-2017-12341

from Cisco Security Advisory http://ift.tt/2Ali9mg

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