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CVE-2022-20864

Published: Oct 10, 2022

Modified: Nov 1, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

4.6

MEDIUM

Description

A vulnerability in the password-recovery disable feature of Cisco IOS XE ROM Monitor (ROMMON) Software for Cisco Catalyst Switches could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to recover the configuration or reset the enable password. This vulnerability is due to a problem with the file and boot variable permissions in ROMMON. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by rebooting the switch into ROMMON and entering specific commands through the console. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read any file or reset the enable password.

VendorProductVersions

Cisco

Cisco IOS XE Software

affected
n/a

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-538

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

Physical

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

References

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