CVE-2019-1593
Cisco NX-OS Software Bash Shell Role-Based Access Control Bypass Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.39%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 67% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A vulnerability in the Bash shell implementation for Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate their privilege level by executing commands authorized to other user roles. The attacker must authenticate with valid user credentials. The vulnerability is due to the incorrect implementation of a Bash shell command that allows role-based access control (RBAC) to be bypassed. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the device and entering a crafted command at the Bash prompt. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to escalate their privilege level by executing commands that should be restricted to other roles. For example, a dev-ops user could escalate their privilege level to admin with a successful exploit of this vulnerability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciscoCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 67% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
Cisco · Nexus 3000 Series Switches
- affected unspecified – < 7.0(3)I7(4)
Cisco · Nexus 3500 Platform Switches
- affected unspecified – < 7.0(3)I7(4)
Cisco · Nexus 3600 Platform Switches
- affected unspecified – < 7.0(3)F3(5)
Cisco · Nexus 7000 and 7700 Series Switches
- affected unspecified – < 8.2(3)
Cisco · Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in ACI Mode
- affected unspecified – < 13.2(4d)
- affected unspecified – < 14.0(1h)
Cisco · Nexus 9000 Series Switches in Standalone NX-OS Mode
- affected unspecified – < 7.0(3)I4(9)
- affected unspecified – < 7.0(3)I7(4)
What to do
Exploitation: The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory.
References
References2
- 20190306 Cisco NX-OS Software Bash Shell Role-Based Access Control Bypass Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- 107324 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-10150 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2019-1593)Record last updated .