CVE-2022-20720 vulnerability in Cisco Products
Published on April 15, 2022
Cisco IOx Application Hosting Environment Vulnerabilities
Multiple vulnerabilities in the Cisco IOx application hosting environment on multiple Cisco platforms could allow an attacker to inject arbitrary commands into the underlying host operating system, execute arbitrary code on the underlying host operating system, install applications without being authenticated, or conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user of the affected software. For more information about these vulnerabilities, see the Details section of this advisory.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2022-20720 is exploitable with network access, and requires user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality, a high impact on integrity, and no impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Directory traversal Vulnerability?
The software uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the software does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.
CVE-2022-20720 has been classified to as a Directory traversal vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2022-20720
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Affected Versions
Cisco IOS Version n/a is affected by CVE-2022-20720Exploit Probability
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