CVE-2011-2569: Cisco NX-OS

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Cisco NX-OS: version 4.2 only; version 5.0 only
• Cisco Unified Computing System
• Cisco Unified Computing System Infrastructure And Unified Computing System Software: version 1.4(1j) only; version 2.0(1q) only

Published 2011-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.