Cisco NX-OS Software For Nexus 7000 Series Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
22 Nov. 2015
Summary
The Python interpreter in Cisco NX-OS 6.2(8a) on Nexus 7000 devices allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and delete an arbitrary VDC's files by leveraging administrative privileges in one VDC
Credit:
The information has been provided by Jens Krabbenhoeft.
Cisco NX-OS Software for Nexus 7000 Series is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. Local attackers can exploit this issue to delete files owned by a different VDC on the device. This could result in a denial of service (DoS) condition on the affected device.
