Command injection in Cisco Data Center Network Manager - CVE-2018-0440
Published: September 6, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU14671
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0440
CWE-ID: CWE-77
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc
Affected software:
Cisco Data Center Network Manager
Cisco Data Center Network Manager
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated application administrator to execute commands to execute arbitrary commands.
The vulnerability exists in the web interface of Cisco Data Center Network Manager due to incomplete input validation of user input within an HTTP request. A remote attacker can authenticate to the application and then send a specially crafted HTTP request to issue commands on the underlying operating system as the root user.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-0440
Update to version 11.0(0.442)S0.