Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI Mode privilege escalation [CVE-2019-1803]

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Nexus 9000 and classified as critical. This issue affects a part of the component ACI Mode. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was disclosed 05/03/2019 as cisco-sa-20190501-nexus9k-rpe as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at tools.cisco.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-1803 since 12/06/2018. An attack has to be approached locally. A single authentication is required for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/03/2019).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Cisco

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• Nexus 9000

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.8

VulDB Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Temp Score: 7.8
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Class: Privilege escalation (CWE-269)
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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0-Day Time: ?12/06/2018 CVE assigned
05/03/2019 +148 days Advisory disclosed
05/03/2019 +0 days VulDB entry created
05/03/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateAdvisory: cisco-sa-20190501-nexus9k-rpe
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2019-1803 (?)
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Created: 05/03/2019 10:15 PM
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