Privilege escalation in Cisco SD-WAN - CVE-2019-1646
Published: January 25, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU17225
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-2019-1646
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on an affected device.
The vulnerability exists due to user input is not properly sanitized for certain commands at the CLI. A local authenticated attacker can send specially crafted commands to the CLI of an affected device, establish an interactive session with elevated privileges and further compromise the device or obtain additional configuration data from the device.
Affected software
Cisco SD-WAN
How to mitigate CVE-2019-1646
Update to version 18.4.0.
Cisco SD-WAN - update to 18.4.0