CVE-2015-4235

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-07-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) devices with software before 1.0(3o) and 1.1 before 1.1(1j) and Nexus 9000 ACI devices with software before 11.0(4o) and 11.1 before 11.1(1j) do not properly restrict access to the APIC filesystem, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain root privileges via unspecified use of the APIC cluster-management configuration feature, aka Bug IDs CSCuu72094 and CSCuv11991.

Affected products

Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (Apic): 1.0(1e)
Cisco NX-OS: 11.0(1b), 11.0(1c), 11.0(1d), 11.0(1e), 11.0(2j), 11.0(2m) (+5)

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20150722-apic
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033025
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20150722-apic
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033025

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