CVE-2015-4235 (GCVE-0-2015-4235)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-07-24 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:11
VLAI
Summary
Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) devices with software before 1.0(3o) and 1.1 before 1.1(1j) and Nexus 9000 ACI devices with software before 11.0(4o) and 11.1 before 11.1(1j) do not properly restrict access to the APIC filesystem, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain root privileges via unspecified use of the APIC cluster-management configuration feature, aka Bug IDs CSCuu72094 and CSCuv11991.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
cisco CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 66/100 over 442 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/Ci… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCO
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033025 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Date Public
2015-07-22 00:00
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