CVE-2021-1423
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-24 20:20
Modified
2024-11-08 23:30
Severity ?
4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
Cisco Aironet Access Points Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability
References
ykramarz@cisco.comhttps://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ap-foverwrt-HyVXvrtbVendor Advisory
Impacted products
CiscoCisco Aironet Access Point Software
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