Medium severity6.7NVD Advisory· Published Sep 25, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-12670
CVE-2019-12670
Description
A vulnerability in the filesystem of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker within the IOx Guest Shell to modify the namespace container protections on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient file permissions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by modifying files that they should not have access to. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to remove container protections and perform file actions outside the namespace of the container.
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Affected products
3- cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:16.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- Range: unspecified
Patches
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