CVE-2021-1583

Medium

Description

A vulnerability in the fabric infrastructure file system access control of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode could allow an authenticated, local attacker to read arbitrary files on an affected system. This vulnerability is due to improper access control. An attacker with Administrator privileges could exploit this vulnerability by executing a specific vulnerable command on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read arbitrary files on the file system of the affected device.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.4
Exploit probability—
ProductCisco Nx-os
PublishedAug 25, 2021
First seenAug 25, 2021

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
cisco nx-os14.2\(7f\)—

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