Command injection in Cisco Integrated Management Controller - CVE-2018-0431
Published: September 7, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU14694
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-2018-0431
CWE-ID: CWE-77
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc
Affected software:
Cisco Integrated Management Controller
Cisco Integrated Management Controller
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the target system.
The vulnerability exists in the web-based management interface of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) Software due to insufficient validation of command input. A remote attacker can send specially crafted commands to the web-based management interface to inject and execute arbitrary, system-level commands with root privileges.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-0431
The vulnerability has been fixed in the versions 3.0(4d), 3.1(3a).