CVE-2021-1462

Summary

CVE-2021-1462 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the CLI of Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software. An authenticated, local attacker with a valid Administrator account can exploit this issue by creating a malicious file, potentially gaining root privileges on the affected system. This vulnerability arises due to incorrect privilege assignment in the software. There are no known workarounds to mitigate this issue, and Cisco has released software updates to address it.

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