CVE-2019-1754CWE-20

Cisco IOS XE Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

High · published March 28, 2019

CVSS v3.0
8.8
EPSS
3%
Percentile
88.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A vulnerability in the authorization subsystem of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated but unprivileged (level 1), remote attacker to run privileged Cisco IOS commands by using the web UI. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of user privileges of web UI users. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a malicious payload to a specific endpoint in the web UI. A successful exploit could allow the lower-privileged attacker to execute arbitrary commands with higher privileges on the affected device.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03405 · 88.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
Published
2019-03-28T00:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 MAR 00:15Z
    Cisco IOS XE Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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