CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-1577

Published: Aug 25, 2021 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
9.1
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
6.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 unauthenticated, remote attacker to read or write arbitrary files on an affected system. This vulnerability is due to improper access control. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using a specific API endpoint to upload a file to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read or write arbitrary files on an affected device.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Application_policy_infrastructure_controller Cisco * 3.2(10e) (excluding)
Application_policy_infrastructure_controller Cisco 4.0 (including) 4.2(6h) (excluding)
Application_policy_infrastructure_controller Cisco 5.0 (including) 5.1(3e) (excluding)
Cloud_application_policy_infrastructure_controller Cisco * 3.2(10e) (excluding)
Cloud_application_policy_infrastructure_controller Cisco 4.0 (including) 4.2(6h) (excluding)
Cloud_application_policy_infrastructure_controller Cisco 5.0 (including) 5.1(3e) (excluding)

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