CVE-2019-1821Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Evolved Programmable Network Manager Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 98.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Prime Infrastructure (PI) and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) Manager could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute code with root-level privileges on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability exist because the software improperly validates user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by uploading a malicious file to the administrative web interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute code with root-level privileges on the underlying operating system.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module, a Nuclei template and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure Health Monitor TarArchive Directory Traversal Vulnerability (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/http/cpi_tararchive_uploadRank excellentdisclosed 15 May 2019
Nuclei templates1 template
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager - Remote Code Execution (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2019/CVE-2019-1821.yamlSeverity critical
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure Health Monitor - TarArchive Directory Traversal (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 47016remote, linuxpublished 20 Jun 2019Verified
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure Health Monitor HA TarArchive - Directory Traversal / Remote Code Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 47686remote, linuxpublished 17 May 2019Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 5 months later
· 5 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 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 98.1% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (14 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 8.8.
Affected products
Cisco · Cisco Prime Infrastructure
- affected 3.4
What to do
Exploitation: The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerabilities that are described in this advisory.
References
References3
- 20190515 Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Evolved Programmable Network Manager Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- 108339 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153350/Cisco-Prime-Infrastructure-Health-Monitor-TarArchive-Directory-Traversal.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2019-10378 (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-2019-1821)Record last updated .