CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-0462

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2018-10-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-10-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

A vulnerability in the user management functionality of Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack against an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-provided input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in with a highly privileged user account and performing a sequence of specific user management operations that interfere with the underlying operating system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to permanently degrade the functionality of the affected system.

Affected configurations

• cisco enterprise network virtualization software nfvis-6.0 • cisco enterprise network virtualization software nfvis-8.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References