CVE-2019-1590

HIGH

Cisco Nexus 9000 - Insecure TLS Client Auth

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate validation functionality of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Mode Switch Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform insecure TLS client authentication on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient TLS client certificate validations for certificates sent between the various components of an ACI fabric. An attacker who has possession of a certificate that is trusted by the Cisco Manufacturing CA and the corresponding private key could exploit this vulnerability by presenting a valid certificate while attempting to connect to the targeted device. An exploit could allow the attacker to gain full control of all other components within the ACI fabric of an affected device.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1
EPSS 0.0098
EPSS Percentile 57.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-295
Status published
Products (2)
cisco/nx-os 8.3\(0\)sk\(0.39\)
cisco/nx-os 14.1\(0.90\)
Published May 03, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026