Cisco has released a security advisory for a vulnerability in the command line interface (CLI) of the NX-OS software in Nexus series switches, which are modular and fixed port network switches designed for data centres.
The command injection vulnerability known as CVE-2024-20399 has a CVSSv3 score of 6.0 and is rated at Medium by Cisco. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by including crafted input as the argument of an affected configuration CLI command, leading to arbitrary command execution on the underlying operating system with the privileges of root. This vulnerability is being exploited in the wild.
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