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CVE-2019-1585

26
FAUCET Score

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).

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.7MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 16,985 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190306-aci-controller-privsec
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/107312
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry