CVE detail

CVE-2019-12670 — CVE-2019-12670

Published 2019-09-25 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor cisco · Product ios · Source nvd

MEDIUM

severity

CVSS-derived band

6.7

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0031

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

24.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

A vulnerability in the filesystem of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker within the IOx Guest Shell to modify the namespace container protections on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient file permissions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by modifying files that they should not have access to. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to remove container protections and perform file actions outside the namespace of the container.

Remediation

Product	Vulnerable range	Fixed version	Advisory
Cisco Cisco IOS XE Software 3.2.11aSG	>=unspecified<n/a	not specified	advisory ↗

References

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