CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the command-line
interpreter of Cisco Nexus devices could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute
arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with user privileges.
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CPE = "cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.105703");
script_version("2022-12-26T10:12:01+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2022-12-26 10:12:01 +0000 (Mon, 26 Dec 2022)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-05-12 16:19:31 +0200 (Thu, 12 May 2016)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.6");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-4232");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Cisco Nexus Devices NX-OS Software Command-Line Interpreter Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Cisco-SA-20150630-CVE-2015-4232)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
script_family("CISCO");
script_dependencies("gb_cisco_nx_os_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("cisco/nx_os/detected", "cisco/nx_os/device", "cisco/nx_os/model");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the command-line
interpreter of Cisco Nexus devices could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute
arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with user privileges.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input sanitization
of parameters passed to the tar command on the command-line interpreter of an affected device.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker could leverage this behavior to execute arbitrary
commands on the underlying operating system with the privileges of the user authenticated to the
device.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"See the referenced vendor advisory for a solution.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/Cisco-SA-20150630-CVE-2015-4232");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if( ! device = get_kb_item( "cisco/nx_os/device" ) )
exit( 0 );
if( "Nexus" >!< device )
exit( 0 );
if ( ! nx_model = get_kb_item( "cisco/nx_os/model" ) )
exit( 0 );
if( ! version = get_app_version( cpe:CPE, nofork:TRUE ) )
exit( 0 );
if( nx_model =~ "^C?7[0-9]+" ) {
affected = make_list("6.2(10)");
}
foreach af ( affected ) {
if( version == af ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version: "See advisory" );
security_message( port:0, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
}
exit( 99 );