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CVE-2021-1578

Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Privilege Escalation Vulnerability PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

A vulnerability in an API endpoint of Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) and Cisco Cloud Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (Cloud APIC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges to Administrator on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to an improper policy default setting. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using a non-privileged credential for Cisco ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO) to send a specific API request to a managed Cisco APIC or Cloud APIC device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain Administrator credentials on the affected device.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Cisco / Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)affected n/a

CWE

CWE-636

References

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