Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches ACI Mode Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode)

CVE-2021-1583
MEDIUM 4.4

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.22 % Β· percentile 13 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Modified

Description

A vulnerability in the fabric infrastructure file system access control of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode could allow an authenticated, local attacker to read arbitrary files on an affected system. This vulnerability is due to improper access control. An attacker with Administrator privileges could exploit this vulnerability by executing a specific vulnerable command on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read arbitrary files on the file system of the affected device.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-284 β€” Improper Access Control

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Ncisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD Β· psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD Β· nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0LOW 2.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:NNVD Β· nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco Β· Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Modeaffected n/a

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST β€” attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA β€” reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain β€” this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD