Privilege escalation in Cisco Industrial Ethernet 4010 Series Switches - CVE-2018-0088
Published: January 19, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU10115
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0088
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists in one of the diagnostic test CLI commands on Cisco Industrial Ethernet 4010 Series Switches due to a diagnostic test CLI command that allows the attacker to write to the device memory. A local attacker can authenticate to the targeted device, issue a specific diagnostic test command at the CLI, overwrite system memory locations and cause DoS condition or execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
The weakness exists in one of the diagnostic test CLI commands on Cisco Industrial Ethernet 4010 Series Switches due to a diagnostic test CLI command that allows the attacker to write to the device memory. A local attacker can authenticate to the targeted device, issue a specific diagnostic test command at the CLI, overwrite system memory locations and cause DoS condition or execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
Affected software
Cisco Industrial Ethernet 4010 Series Switches
How to mitigate CVE-2018-0088
Update to version 15.2(6.4.19i)E1.