CVE-2016-1341: Cisco NX-OS

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cisco NX-OS 7.0(1)N1(1), 7.0(1)N1(3), and 7.0(4)N1(1) on Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender devices has a blank root password, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, aka Bug ID CSCur22079.

Affected products

• Cisco NX-OS: version 7.0(1)n1(1) only; version 7.0(1)n1(3) only; version 7.0(4)n1(1) only

Published 2016-02-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.