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CVE-2023-20210

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CVE-2023-20210

Published: Jul 12, 2023

Modified: Aug 2, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.0

MEDIUM

Description

A vulnerability in Cisco BroadWorks could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to the root user on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation by the operating system CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing a crafted command to the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands as the root user. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must have valid BroadWorks administrative privileges on the affected device.

VendorProductVersions

Cisco

Cisco BroadWorks

affected
24.0 ap375672
affected
24.0 ap375655
affected
24.0 ap376979
affected
24.0 ap379112
affected
24.0 ap379588

+9191 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

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