The vulnerability of the NoviWare operating system arises from buffer overflows during the execution of the “show log cli” command, allowing an attacker to gain superuser privileges.

The vulnerability of the NoviWare operating system arises due to an overflow in the buffer during the processing of the “show log cli” command. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor, who operates remotely and has read access to data, to gain superuser privileges by using the...

CVE-2017-12785

The novish command-line interface, included in the NoviWare software distribution through NW400.2.6 and deployed on NoviSwitch devices, is prone to a buffer overflow in the "show log cli" command. This could be used by a read-only user monitor role to gain privileged root code execution on the...