TI-2021-01214 Aliases CVE-2021-1487 GHSA-5frr-j9x3-j3hg

Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager Command Injection Vulnerability

MEDIUM 44CWE-78Published 2021-05-22 · Updated 2024-11-08

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-78.

Summary

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) Manager could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input to the web-based management interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP requests to the interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system (OS) with the permissions of a special non-root user. In this way, an attacker could take control of the affected system, which would allow them to obtain and alter sensitive data. The attacker could also affect the devices that are managed by the affected system by pushing arbitrary configuration files, retrieving device credentials and confidential information, and ultimately undermining the stability of the devices, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.02115 81st percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Cisco	Cisco Prime Infrastructure	all versions	—	No fix listed	CNA

Cisco Prime Infrastructure VendorCisco Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:evolved_programmable_network_manager::::::::	before 5.1	Vulnerable	Cisco
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:prime_infrastructure::::::::	before 3.9	Vulnerable	Cisco

cpe:2.3:a:cisco:evolved_programmable_network_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 5.1 Vulnerable ·Cisco
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:prime_infrastructure:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 3.9 Vulnerable ·Cisco

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2021-1487
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5frr-j9x3-j3hg

References

Advisory 1

20210519 Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager Command Injection Vulnerability

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-2019-01444 Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Evolved Programmable Network Manager Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2016-01184 Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.2.0 through 2.2(2) and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2016-01182 The API in Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.2 through 3.0 and Evolved Programmable Network… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2019-12001 Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Evolved Programmable Network Manager Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2019-01446 Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Evolved Programmable Network Manager Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8

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Sources

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