Privilege escalation in Cisco NX-OS - CVE-2018-0293
Published: June 22, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU13426
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0293
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc
Affected software:
Cisco NX-OS
Cisco NX-OS
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The vulnerability exists in role-based access control (RBAC)due to incorrect RBAC privilege assignment for certain CLI commands. A remote attacker can authenticate to a device as a nonadministrative user, executing specific commands from the CLI, gain elevated privileges and run arbitrary commands to modify the configuration or boot image on the device.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-0293
Install update from vendor's website.