CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-12672

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2019-09-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-09-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

A vulnerability in the filesystem of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with physical access to an affected device to execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system (OS) with root privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient file location validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by placing code in a specific format on a USB device and inserting it into an affected Cisco device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute the code with root privileges on the underlying OS of the affected device.

Affected configurations

• cisco ios 16.9.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References