CVE-2019-1936: cisco cisco unified computing system director Improper Input Validation

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2019-1936 is a high (CVSS 9.0) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in cisco cisco unified computing system director. EPSS estimates a 39.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98.5% of scored vulnerabilities. 4 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 21-08-2019
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 20-11-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) Supervisor, Cisco UCS Director, and Cisco UCS Director Express for Big Data could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux shell as the root user. Exploitation of this vulnerability requires privileged access to an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input by the web-based management interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to the web-based management interface with administrator privileges and then sending a malicious request to a certain part of the interface.

• CWE-20Improper Input ValidationThe product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.