A vulnerability in the Smart Install feature of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a reload of an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition, or to execute arbitrary code on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of packet data. An attacker could exploit this …
A vulnerability in the web UI of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary commands that can be executed as the root user. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted request to the web UI of an affected device with arbitrary commands injected into a portion of …
A vulnerability in Role Based Access Control (RBAC) functionality of Cisco IOS XE Web Management Software could allow a Read-Only authenticated, remote attacker to execute commands or configuration changes as an Admin user. The vulnerability is due to incorrect handling of RBAC for the administration GUI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by …
Hello @Gilbert Wong, your understanding is correct in the case of access layer switches that can install an uplink module the ports of the uplink module are labelled GI1/1/1 or Ten1/1/1. To be noted in some models the name of uplink interface to be configured depends on the effective optic you have installed. Hope to help.
There are no workarounds that address these vulnerabilities. However, there is a mitigation. Customers who do not want to use the Cisco IOx application hosting environment can disable IOx permanently on the device by using the no iox configuration command.. While this mitigation has been deployed and was proven successful in a test environment, customers …