Privilege escalation in Cisco SD-WAN - CVE-2018-0349
Published: July 20, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU13942
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0349
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The vulnerability exists in the Cisco SD-WAN Solution due to improper input validation of the request admin-tech command in the CLI. A remote authenticated attacker can modify the request admin-tech command in the CLI and overwrite arbitrary files on the underlying operating system to gain root privileges.
Affected software
Cisco SD-WAN
How to mitigate CVE-2018-0349
Update to version 18.3.0.
Cisco SD-WAN - update to 18.3.0