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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CVE-2012-4141

Medium
6.2/10

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in the CLI parser in Cisco NX-OS allows local users to create arbitrary script files via a relative pathname in the "file name" parameter, aka Bug IDs CSCua71557 and CSCua71551.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • SINGLE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE
  • NONE

CWE-264 - Permissions Privileges and Access Controls

CWE 264 (permissions, privileges, and access controls) is not a weakness in and of itself, rather it is a category of weaknesses related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features used to perform access control. If not addressed, the weaknesses in this category allow attackers to gain privileges for an unintended sphere of control, access sensitive information, and execute arbitrary commands.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published