Cisco Integrated Management Controller CLI os command injection

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Cisco Integrated Management Controller. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component CLI. Performing a manipulation results in os command injection. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2019-1883. The attack must be initiated from a local position. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Integrated Management Controller (version now known). It has been classified as critical. This affects some unknown processing of the component CLI. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-78. The product 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability in the command-line interface of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) could allow an authenticated, local attacker with read-only credentials to inject arbitrary commands that could allow them to obtain root privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input on the command-line interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating with read-only privileges via the CLI of an affected device and submitting crafted input to the affected commands. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the device with root privileges.

The weakness was shared 08/21/2019 as cisco-sa-20190821-cimc-cli-inj as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-1883 since 12/06/2018. Attacking locally is a requirement. Required for exploitation is a authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries VDB-140563, VDB-140562, VDB-140561 and VDB-140560 are related to this item. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Cisco

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• Integrated Management Controller

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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