cisco integrated-management-controller CVE-2019-1879 vulnerability in Cisco Products
Published on June 20, 2019

Cisco Integrated Management Controller CLI Command Injection Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to inject arbitrary commands that are executed with root privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input at the CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating with the administrator password via the CLI of an affected device and submitting crafted input to the affected commands. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the device with root privileges.

Vendor Advisory NVD

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-2019-1879 has been classified to as a Shell injection vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2019-1879

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Affected Versions

Cisco Unified Computing System (Management Software) Version 4.0 is affected by CVE-2019-1879

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.06%
Percentile
18.99%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.