CVE-2019-1971 vulnerability in Cisco Products
Published on August 8, 2019
Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software Command Injection Vulnerability
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.
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-2019-1971 has been classified to as a Shell injection vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2019-1971
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Affected Versions
Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software:- Version unspecified and below n/a is affected.
Exploit Probability
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