CVE detail

CVE-2019-12672 — CVE-2019-12672

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

MEDIUM

severity

CVSS-derived band

6.8

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0060

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

45.0%

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 with physical access to an affected device to execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system (OS) with root privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient file location validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by placing code in a specific format on a USB device and inserting it into an affected Cisco device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute the code with root privileges on the underlying OS of the affected device.

Remediation

Product	Vulnerable range	Fixed version	Advisory
Cisco Cisco IOS XE Software 3.11.1S	>=unspecified<n/a	not specified	advisory ↗

References

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