PT-2018-8831
CVE-2018-0440
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Published
2018-10-05
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Updated
2019-10-09
Description by
CVSS 2.0
9.0
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Cisco Data Center Network Manager (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue is related to incomplete input validation of user input within an HTTP request in the web interface, allowing an authenticated application administrator to execute commands on the underlying operating system with root-level privileges. An attacker could exploit this by authenticating to the application and sending a crafted HTTP request. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to issue commands on the underlying operating system as the root user.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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