CVE-2019-1585: Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Software

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the controller authorization functionality of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series ACI Mode Switch Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate standard users with root privilege on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a misconfiguration of certain sudoers files for the bashroot component on an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the affected device with a crafted user ID, which may allow temporary administrative access to escalate privileges. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to escalate privileges on an affected device. This Vulnerability has been fixed in version 4.0(1h)

Affected products

• Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Software: up to and including 4.0\(1h\)
• Cisco NX-OS: version 8.3(0)sk(0.39) only

Published 2019-03-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.