CVE-2012-4131

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-12-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in tar in Cisco NX-OS allows local users to access arbitrary files via crafted command-line arguments, aka Bug IDs CSCty07157, CSCty07159, CSCty07162, and CSCty07164.

Affected products

Cisco NX-OS: all versions

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2012-4131
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2012-4131

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