Cisco Data Center Network Manager Certificate Validation Vulnerabilities
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Spoofing
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-295.
Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) could allow an attacker to spoof a trusted host or construct a man-in-the-middle attack to extract sensitive information or alter certain API requests. These vulnerabilities are due to insufficient certificate validation when establishing HTTPS requests with the affected device. For more information about these vulnerabilities, see the Details section of this advisory.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2021-1276
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-w5fp-2j8v-x63m
References
More Cisco Data Center Network Manager vulnerabilities
- TI-2021-19919 Apache Log4j2 JNDI features do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2019-12015 Cisco Data Center Network Manager Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2019-12016 Cisco Data Center Network Manager Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2023-23979 The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2019-01247 Cisco Data Center Network Manager Arbitrary File Upload and Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2019-01246 Cisco Data Center Network Manager Authentication Bypass Vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2021-1276 · CVE Program
- CVE-2021-1276 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-w5fp-2j8v-x63m · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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