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CVE-2013-5556

N/A

Published: November 16, 2013 at 02:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:59 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorNexus 1000V

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.3%

Description

The license-installation module on the Cisco Nexus 1000V switch 4.2(1)SV1(5.2b) and earlier for VMware vSphere, Cisco Nexus 1000V switch 5.2(1)SM1(5.1) for Microsoft Hyper-V, and Cisco Virtual Security Gateway 4.2(1)VSG1(1) for Nexus 1000V switches allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary commands via crafted "install all iso" arguments, aka Bug ID CSCui21340.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Nexus 1000V · Cisco

95%

v ≤ 4.2\(1\)sv1\(5.2b\)4.2(1)_sv1(4)4.2(1)_sv1(4a)4.2(1)_sv1(4b)4.2(1)sv1(5.1)4.2(1)sv1(5.1a)4.2(1)sv1(5.2)4.2(1)vsg1(1)5.2(1)sm1(5.1)

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (2)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_CISCO

Source: [email protected]

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-5556

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=31774

CVSS

6.8MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: COMPLETE
Integrity: COMPLETE
Availability: COMPLETE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-264

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