Privilege escalation in Cisco ASR 5000 Series - CVE-2018-0224
Published: March 10, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU10900
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-2018-0224
CWE-ID: CWE-77
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 the CLI of the Cisco StarOS operating system for Cisco ASR 5000 Series Aggregation Services Routers due toinsufficient validation of user-supplied input. A local attacker can inject malicious arguments into a vulnerable CLI command and execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
The weakness exists in the CLI of the Cisco StarOS operating system for Cisco ASR 5000 Series Aggregation Services Routers due toinsufficient validation of user-supplied input. A local attacker can inject malicious arguments into a vulnerable CLI command and execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
Affected software
Cisco ASR 5000 Series
How to mitigate CVE-2018-0224
Update to version 21.6.RU0.68455, 21.6.D0.68319, 21.6.A0.68321, 21.5.M0.68317, 21.5.C0.68318, 21.5.0.68363, 21.5.0