CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-1971

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2019-08-08 Modified 2026-08-24 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-08-08
Last modified
2026-08-24
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-78

Description

A vulnerability in the web portal of Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform a command injection attack and execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation by the web portal framework. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing malicious input during web portal authentication. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the underlying operating system.

Affected configurations

• cisco enterprise nfv infrastructure software (>= 3.6.2 <= 3.8.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness

References