CVE-2019-1907
HIGHCisco IMC Supervisor < 4.0(4b) - Authenticated Privilege Escalation
Title source: llmDescription
A vulnerability in the web server of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to set sensitive configuration values and gain elevated privileges. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of substring comparison operations that are performed by the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the affected software. A successful exploit could allow the attacker with read-only privileges to gain administrator privileges.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_cisco
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190821-imc-privescal
Scores
CVSS v3
8.8
EPSS
0.0137
EPSS Percentile
68.3%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-285
Status
published
Products (2)
cisco/integrated_management_controller_supervisor
< 4.0\(4b\)
cisco/unified_computing_system
4.0\(1c\)hs3
Published
Aug 21, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026