cve-2021-1441
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-24 20:06
Modified
2024-09-17 02:21
Severity
6.7 (Medium) - cvssV3_1 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Cisco IOS XE Software Hardware Initialization Routines Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
References
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ykramarz@cisco.comhttps://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ios-xe-iot-codexec-k46EFF6qVendor Advisory
Impacted products
VendorProduct
CiscoCisco IOS XE Software
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