CVE-2019-1907

Cisco Integrated Management Controller Substring Comparison Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 21, 2019 at 06:25 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:29 AM UTC
6 products affected across 1 vendorUnified Computing SystemIntegrated Management Controller SupervisorUcs S3260

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

A vulnerability in the web server of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to set sensitive configuration values and gain elevated privileges. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of substring comparison operations that are performed by the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the affected software. A successful exploit could allow the attacker with read-only privileges to gain administrator privileges.

Affected

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

v < 4.0(2f)v < 4.0(4b)
Affected range stops below 4.0(2f), so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 4.0(4b), so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
cisco-ucs-c125-m5 (environment) · cisco-ucs-c4200 (environment) · cisco-ucs-s3260 (environment)
v < 4.0(2f)
Affected range stops below 4.0(2f), so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
All versions
All versions
All versions

Remediation

No guide yet

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

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-285NVD-CWE-Other

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