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CVE-2021-1384

CVE information

Published

3 years ago

Last Modified

5 months ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

CVSSv3.1 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

Description

A vulnerability in Cisco IOx application hosting environment of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to inject commands into the underlying operating system as the root user. This vulnerability is due to incomplete validation of fields in the application packages loaded onto IOx. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a crafted application .tar file and loading it onto the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to perform command injection into the underlying operating system as the root user..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
8.5/10
Exploit Score
6.8/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
Single
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

CVSSv3.1 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
7.2/10
Exploit Score
1.2/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
Impact Score
5.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
High
Availability Impact
High
Integrity Impact
High
Scope
Unchanged
User Interaction
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:17.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- 16.6.9
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
16.9.0 16.9.7
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
17.3.2 17.3.3
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
17.4.0 17.4.2