CVE-2019-1878 vulnerability in Cisco Products
Published on June 20, 2019
Cisco TelePresence Endpoint Command Shell Injection Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) implementation for the Cisco TelePresence Codec (TC) and Collaboration Endpoint (CE) Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to inject arbitrary shell commands that are executed by the device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of received CDP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted CDP packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands or scripts on the targeted device.
Weakness Type
What is a Shell injection Vulnerability?
The software constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component.
CVE-2019-1878 has been classified to as a Shell injection vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2019-1878
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Affected Versions
Cisco TelePresence TC Software:- Version unspecified and below 9.7.1 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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