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CVE-2023-20065

Published: Mar 23, 2023

Modified: Aug 2, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.8

HIGH

Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco IOx application hosting subsystem of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions on the hosted application. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to and then escaping the Cisco IOx application container. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with root privileges.

VendorProductVersions

Cisco

Cisco IOS XE Software

affected
16.4.1
affected
16.4.2
affected
16.4.3
affected
17.3.1
affected
17.3.2

+45 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-284

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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