CVE-2011-2569
Cisco Nexus OS (aka NX-OS) 4.2 and 5.0 and Cisco Unified Computing System with software 1.4 and 2.0 do not properly restrict command-line options, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, aka Bug IDs CSCtf40008, CSCtg18363, CSCtr44645, CSCts10195, and CSCts10188.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (24th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-2552)
- Published
- October 27, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-2552 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on September 17, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- cisco / nx-os
- cisco / nx-os
- cisco / unified computing system
- cisco / unified computing system infrastructure and unified computing system software
- cisco / unified computing system infrastructure and unified computing system software
Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch w/2000 Series Fabric Extenders running s/w NX-OS v5.0(3)N1(1c), and Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) running s/w v5.2 patch 3 - Cisco Systems, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-10384-2011 - archived
References
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=24458(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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