CVE-2019-1820: Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Evolved Programmable Network Manager Path Traversal Vulnerability

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-05-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) Manager software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to download and view files within the application that should be restricted. This vulnerability is due to improper sanitization of user-supplied input in HTTP request parameters that describe filenames. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using directory traversal techniques to submit a path to a desired file location. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to view application files that may contain sensitive information.

Affected products

Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager (EPNM): before 3.0.1 — fixed in 3.0.1
Cisco Prime Infrastructure: before 3.4 — fixed in 3.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager (EPNM) 3.0.1; Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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