Cisco IOx Root Escalation via Untrusted Activation Payload
CVE-2023-20076 Published on February 12, 2023
Cisco IOx Application Hosting Environment Command Injection Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the Cisco IOx application hosting environment could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying host operating system. This vulnerability is due to incomplete sanitization of parameters that are passed in for activation of an application. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by deploying and activating an application in the Cisco IOx application hosting environment with a crafted activation payload file. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying host operating system.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2023-20076 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 be very high.
Weakness Type
Improper Handling of Parameters
The software does not properly handle when the expected number of parameters, fields, or arguments is not provided in input, or if those parameters are undefined.
Products Associated with CVE-2023-20076
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Affected Versions
Cisco IOS Version n/a is affected by CVE-2023-20076Exploit Probability
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