Privilege Escalation and Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability in Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch

CVE-2013-5556 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

The license-installation module on the Cisco Nexus 1000V switch 4.2(1)SV1(5.2b) and earlier for VMware vSphere, Cisco Nexus 1000V switch 5.2(1)SM1(5.1) for Microsoft Hyper-V, and Cisco Virtual Security Gateway 4.2(1)VSG1(1) for Nexus 1000V switches allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary commands via crafted "install all iso" arguments, aka Bug ID CSCui21340.

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