CVE-2019-1585 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in Cisco Nexus 9000 Series ACI Mode Switch Software, allowing an authenticated local attacker to gain root privileges due to misconfigured sudoers files. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), exploitation requires local access but is low complexity, leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage. The vulnerability has been patched in version 4.0(1h).
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.3\(0\)sk\(0.39\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nx-os:8.3\(0\)sk\(0.39\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 4.0\(1h\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:application_policy_infrastructure_controller_software:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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