CVE detail

CVE-2021-1583 — CVE-2021-1583

Published 2021-08-25 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor cisco · Product nx-os · Source nvd

MEDIUM

severity

CVSS-derived band

4.4

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0022

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

13.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

A vulnerability in the fabric infrastructure file system access control of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode could allow an authenticated, local attacker to read arbitrary files on an affected system. This vulnerability is due to improper access control. An attacker with Administrator privileges could exploit this vulnerability by executing a specific vulnerable command on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read arbitrary files on the file system of the affected device.

Remediation

Product	Vulnerable range	Fixed version	Advisory
Cisco Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode	—	not specified	advisory ↗

References

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