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Scanning Diagnostics: Cisco SSH privilege elevation failed for the scan

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Scanning Diagnostics: Cisco SSH privilege elevation failed for the scan

Severity
1
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/02/2021
Created
11/03/2021
Added
11/02/2021
Modified
11/02/2021

Description

The following information is for Scan Diagnostic purposes only, and is not indicative of a detected vulnerability.

SSH Credentials were configured for privilege elevation but failed to elevate successfully.

Without privileged Cisco credentials, both Vulnerability and Policy assessments of Cisco Operating Systems (e.g. IOS, NX-OS) will be unable to collect required data, which will lead to inaccurate results.

Solution(s)

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