Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software Command Injection Vulnerability

Published 7 y ago 2019-08-08 · modified 2 mo ago 2026-08-24 · JSON

CVSS

8.1

v3.0 · CNA

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

3.6%

percentile 90%

Public exploits

none known

A vulnerability in the web portal of Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform a command injection attack and execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation by the web portal framework. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing malicious input during web portal authentication. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the underlying operating system.

CISA SSVC assessment

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 23 mo ago 2024-11-20

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

3.61% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
CNA	3.0	8.1	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	3.1	9.8	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
CNA	3.0	8.1	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	10.0	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C`

Affected products

Cisco Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software

Classification

Weakness

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

tools.cisco.com /security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190807-nfv-commandinj · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2019-1971
NVD: CVE-2019-1971

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Summary