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CVE-2023-20235

Published: Oct 4, 2023

Modified: Feb 25, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.5

MEDIUM

Description

A vulnerability in the on-device application development workflow feature for the Cisco IOx application hosting infrastructure in Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to access the underlying operating system as the root user. This vulnerability exists because Docker containers with the privileged runtime option are not blocked when they are in application development mode. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using the Docker CLI to access an affected device. The application development workflow is meant to be used only on development systems and not in production systems.

VendorProductVersions

Cisco

Cisco IOS XE Software

affected
17.3.1
affected
17.3.2
affected
17.3.3
affected
17.3.1a
affected
17.3.1w

+61 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-552

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

References

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