Vigil@nce - Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI: privilege escalation via Symbolic Link Path Traversal
July 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Nexus by Cisco, NX-OS.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, privileged
access/rights, data creation/edition, data deletion.
Provenance: user account.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 02/05/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass restrictions via Symbolic Link Path
Traversal of Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI, in order to escalate his
privileges.
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