CVE-2021-1584

MEDIUM

Cisco NX-OS - Authenticated Privilege Escalation via CLI Command Injection

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions during the execution of a specific CLI command. An attacker with administrative privileges could exploit this vulnerability by performing a command injection attack on the vulnerable command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to access the underlying operating system as root.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 6.0
EPSS 0.0011
EPSS Percentile 28.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-78
Status published
Products (1)
cisco/nx-os 14.2\(7f\)
Published Aug 25, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026