Cisco Nexus Devices NX-OS Software Command-Line Interpreter Local Privilege Escalation (CVE-2015-4232)

Cisco NX-OS 6.210 on Nexus and MDS 9000 devices allows local users to execute arbitrary OS commands by entering crafted tar parameters in the CLI, aka Bug ID CSCus44856. This plugin only works with Tenable.ot. Please visit https://www.tenable.com/products/tenable-ot for more information...

CVE-2015-4232

Cisco NX-OS (Nexus/MDS 9000) devices are affected by CVE-2015-4232 due to insufficient input sanitization of tar parameters in the CLI, allowing a local authenticated user to execute arbitrary OS commands with user privileges. The vulnerability arises from how the tar command parameters are parse...