Number: AV19-121
Date: 21 June 2019
On 20 June 2019, Cisco released security updated to address vulnerabilities affecting some of their products. Of note, Cisco released an update and patch for a critical remote command execution vulnerability affecting web-based management interface of multiple networking products. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1663, could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected device. The vulnerability leverages a weakness in input validation in the web-based management interface. An attacker could send specially crafted HTTP request code to a targeted device to exploit this vulnerability. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute code on the underlying operating system as a high-privilege user.
CCCS highly encourages users and administrators to review the following Cisco security advisory and apply the necessary updates:
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190227-rmi-cmd-ex
CCCS further encourages users and administrators to review all the Cisco Security Advisories and Alerts and apply the necessary updates:
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/publicationListing.x
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