CVE-2021-1583

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches ACI Mode Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

MEDIUM

4.4

CVSS Score

Published: August 25, 2021 at 07:10 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:32 AM UTC

42 products affected across 1 vendorNx OSNexus 9508Nexus 93120Tx

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Severity

MEDIUM4.4

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.2%

SSVC

No known exploit

Description

A vulnerability in the fabric infrastructure file system access control of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode could allow an authenticated, local attacker to read arbitrary files on an affected system. This vulnerability is due to improper access control. An attacker with Administrator privileges could exploit this vulnerability by executing a specific vulnerable command on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read arbitrary files on the file system of the affected device.

Affected

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

Nx OS · Cisconpm

95%

14.2(7f)

cisco-nexus-9000 (environment) · cisco-nexus-9000v (environment) · cisco-nexus-92160yc-x (environment) · cisco-nexus-92300yc (environment) · cisco-nexus-92304qc (environment) · cisco-nexus-92348gc-x (environment) · cisco-nexus-9236c (environment) · cisco-nexus-9272q (environment) · cisco-nexus-93108tc-ex (environment) · cisco-nexus-93108tc-ex-24 (environment) · cisco-nexus-93108tc-fx (environment) · cisco-nexus-93108tc-fx-24 (environment) · cisco-nexus-93108tc-fx3p (environment) · cisco-nexus-93120tx (environment) · cisco-nexus-93128tx (environment) · cisco-nexus-9316d-gx (environment) · cisco-nexus-93180lc-ex (environment) · cisco-nexus-93180yc-ex (environment) · cisco-nexus-93180yc-ex-24 (environment) · cisco-nexus-93180yc-fx (environment) · cisco-nexus-93180yc-fx-24 (environment) · cisco-nexus-93180yc-fx3 (environment) · cisco-nexus-93180yc-fx3s (environment) · cisco-nexus-93216tc-fx2 (environment) · cisco-nexus-93240yc-fx2 (environment) · cisco-nexus-9332c (environment) · cisco-nexus-9332pq (environment) · cisco-nexus-93360yc-fx2 (environment) · cisco-nexus-9336c-fx2 (environment) · cisco-nexus-9336c-fx2-e (environment) · cisco-nexus-9348gc-fxp (environment) · cisco-nexus-93600cd-gx (environment) · cisco-nexus-9364c (environment) · cisco-nexus-9364c-gx (environment) · cisco-nexus-9372px (environment) · cisco-nexus-9372px-e (environment) · cisco-nexus-9372tx (environment) · cisco-nexus-9372tx-e (environment) · cisco-nexus-9396px (environment) · cisco-nexus-9396tx (environment) · cisco-nexus-9508 (environment)

Nexus 9000 · Ciscodevice

80%

All versions

Nexus 9000V · Ciscodevice

80%

All versions

Nexus 92160Yc-X · Ciscodevice

80%

All versions

Nexus 92300Yc · Ciscodevice

80%

All versions