Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software Command Injection Vulnerability

published 2019-08-08 7 y ago modified 2026-08-24 2 mo ago also EUVD-2019-10528

cvss: 8.1; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 3.6%; EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits: 0; none known

A vulnerability in the web portal of Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform a command injection attack and execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation by the web portal framework. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing malicious input during web portal authentication. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the underlying operating system.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 23 mo ago (2024-11-20)

Exploit prediction

3.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	8.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	10.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

Cisco Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software

Classification

Weakness

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

tools.cisco.com /security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190807-nfv-commandinj
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-1971
NVD CVE-2019-1971

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Summary