Medium severity6.0NVD Advisory· Published Aug 25, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-1584
CVE-2021-1584
Description
A vulnerability in Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions during the execution of a specific CLI command. An attacker with administrative privileges could exploit this vulnerability by performing a command injection attack on the vulnerable command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to access the underlying operating system as root.
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Affected products
3- cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nx-os:14.2\(7f\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- Cisco/Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Modev5Range: n/a
Patches
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References
1- tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-naci-mdvul-vrKVgNUnvdPatchVendor Advisory
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