Vulnerability · Published Feb 26, 2020 · Assigned by cisco
CVE-2020-3169Cisco FXOS Software CLI Command Injection Vulnerability
Medium 6.7
In plain English
A medium-severity OS command injection in Cisco Firepower Extensible Operating System (FXOS) from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 39% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco FXOS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with a privilege level of root on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to a specific CLI command on the affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by including malicious input as the argument of an affected command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with root privileges. An attacker would need valid administrator credentials to exploit this vulnerability.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Cisco | Cisco Firepower Extensible Operating System (FXOS) | unspecified – before n/a |
Weakness: CWE-78 · Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- 20200226 Cisco FXOS Software CLI Command Injection Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO