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CVE-2019-1971

CRITICAL

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.

Published: Aug 8, 2019 Modified: Jun 17, 2026
CWE-78 CWE-20

CVSS Metrics

CVSSv3
Attack Vector: NETWORK Attack Complexity: LOW Privileges Required: NONE User Interaction: NONE Scope: UNCHANGED Confidentiality Impact: HIGH Integrity Impact: HIGH Availability Impact: HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products (1)

Vendor Product Version
cisco enterprise_network_function_virtualization_infrastructure * ≥ 3.6.2

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-9fqx-8qp3-fpv5

A vulnerability in the web portal of Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS) could...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 9.8 / 10
EPSS Score 3.58%

Top 12% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 40.3 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub