CVE-2019-1588: Cisco NX-OS

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches running in Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode could allow an authenticated, local attacker to read arbitrary files on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a lack of proper input and validation checking mechanisms of user-supplied input sent to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker unauthorized access to read arbitrary files on an affected device. This vulnerability has been fixed in version 14.0(1h).

Affected products

• Cisco NX-OS: before 14.0\(1h\) (fixed in 14.0\(1h\))

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