CVSS 3.0
6.7 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2017-12333
Medium (6.7) in cisco. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A vulnerability in Cisco NX-OS System Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to bypass signature verification when loading a software image. The vulnerability is due to insufficient NX-OS signature verification for software images. An authenticated, local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass signature verification and load a crafted, unsigned software image on a targeted device. The attacker would need valid administrator credentials to perform this exploit. This vulnerability affects the following products running Cisco NX-OS System Software: Multilayer Director Switches, Nexus 7000 Series Switches, Nexus 7700 Series Switches, Unified Computing System Manager. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf25045, CSCvf31495.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 13% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-347
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- cisco:nx-os
- cisco:unified_computing_system