CVE-2019-1972: Cisco Enterprise Nfv Infrastructure Software

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability the Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS) restricted CLI could allow an authenticated, local attacker with valid administrator-level credentials to elevate privileges and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system as root. The vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions during the execution of an affected CLI command. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by leveraging the insufficient restrictions during the execution of an affected command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system as root.

Affected products

• Cisco Enterprise Nfv Infrastructure Software: from 3.6.3, up to and including 3.10.3

Published 2019-08-08. Last modified 2026-08-24.