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high 8.8

CVE-2019-1821 in the critical feed json

Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Evolved Programmable Network Manager Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

published 2019-05-16 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-10378

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
98.1%
EPSS 98.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.9%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Prime Infrastructure (PI) and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) Manager could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute code with root-level privileges on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability exist because the software improperly validates user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by uploading a malicious file to the administrative web interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute code with root-level privileges on the underlying operating system.

Patch / fix

  • cisco evolved_programmable_network_manager 3.0.1
  • cisco prime_infrastructure 3.4.1

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/linux/http/cpi_tararchive_upload)
  2. Published

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

98.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/linux/http/cpi_tararchive_upload Cisco Prime Infrastructure Health Monitor TarArchive Directory Traversal Vulnerability metasploit exploit, excellent rank, 2019-05-15
  • EDB-47686 Cisco Prime Infrastructure Health Monitor HA TarArchive - Directory Traversal / Remote Code Execution remote, 2019-05-17
  • EDB-47016 Cisco Prime Infrastructure Health Monitor - TarArchive Directory Traversal (Metasploit) remote, 2019-06-20
  • Nuclei template Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager - Remote Code Execution nuclei detection template

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.