CVE-2018-0224

A vulnerability in the CLI of the Cisco StarOS operating system for Cisco ASR 5000 Series Aggregation Services Routers could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on an affected operating system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input by the affected operating system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to an affected system and injecting malicious arguments into a vulnerable CLI command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the affected system. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvg38807.

• CWE-77
• CWE-78

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103344Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040466Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180307-staros1Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103344Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040466Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180307-staros1Vendor Advisory

Published

Mar 8, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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