CVE-2021-1578 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) and Cloud APIC. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit an improper policy default setting via a specific API request from Cisco ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO) to gain Administrator credentials. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 5.0, <= 5.1\(3e\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:application_policy_infrastructure_controller:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0\(2h\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:application_policy_infrastructure_controller:5.0\(2h\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 5.0, <= 5.1\(3e\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:cloud_application_policy_infrastructure_controller:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0\(2h\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:cloud_application_policy_infrastructure_controller:5.0\(2h\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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