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CVE-2023-20224

Published: Aug 16, 2023

Modified: Aug 2, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.8

HIGH

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent, Virtual Appliance installation type, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of user-supplied CLI arguments. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to an affected device and using crafted commands at the prompt. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root. The attacker must have valid credentials on the affected device.

VendorProductVersions

Cisco

Cisco ThousandEyes Recorder Application

affected
1.0.5
affected
1.0.4
affected
1.0.3

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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