Cisco Nexus Dashboard Privilege Escalation via Sensitive Token
CVE-2024-20282 Published on April 3, 2024
A vulnerability in Cisco Nexus Dashboard could allow an authenticated, local attacker with valid rescue-user credentials to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient protections for a sensitive access token. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using this token to access resources within the device infrastructure. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to gain root access to the filesystem or hosted containers on an affected device.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-20282 is exploitable with local system 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 high impact on confidentiality and integrity, and no impact on availability.
Weakness Type
Improper Privilege Management
The software does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-20282
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Affected Versions
Cisco Nexus Dashboard:- Version 1.1(0c) is affected.
- Version 1.1(0d) is affected.
- Version 1.1(2h) is affected.
- Version 1.1(2i) is affected.
- Version 1.1(3c) is affected.
- Version 1.1(3d) is affected.
- Version 1.1(3e) is affected.
- Version 1.1(3f) is affected.
- Version 2.0(1b) is affected.
- Version 2.0(1d) is affected.
- Version 2.0(2g) is affected.
- Version 2.0(2h) is affected.
- Version 2.1(1d) is affected.
- Version 2.1(1e) is affected.
- Version 2.1(2d) is affected.
- Version 2.1(2f) is affected.
- Version 2.2(1e) is affected.
- Version 2.2(1h) is affected.
- Version 2.2(2d) is affected.
- Version 2.3(1c) is affected.
- Version 2.3(2b) is affected.
- Version 2.3(2c) is affected.
- Version 2.3(2d) is affected.
- Version 2.3(2e) is affected.
- Version 3.0(1f) is affected.
- Version 3.0(1i) is affected.
- Version 1.1(0c) is affected.
- Version 1.1(0d) is affected.
- Version 1.1(2h) is affected.
- Version 1.1(2i) is affected.
- Version 1.1(3c) is affected.
- Version 1.1(3d) is affected.
- Version 1.1(3e) is affected.
- Version 1.1(3f) is affected.
- Version 2.0(1b) is affected.
- Version 2.0(1d) is affected.
- Version 2.0(2g) is affected.
- Version 2.0(2h) is affected.
- Version 2.1(1d) is affected.
- Version 2.1(1e) is affected.
- Version 2.1(2d) is affected.
- Version 2.1(2f) is affected.
- Version 2.2(1e) is affected.
- Version 2.2(1h) is affected.
- Version 2.2(2d) is affected.
- Version 2.3(1c) is affected.
- Version 2.3(2b) is affected.
- Version 2.3(2c) is affected.
- Version 2.3(2d) is affected.
- Version 2.3(2e) is affected.
- Version 3.0(1f) is affected.
- Version 3.0(1i) is affected.
Exploit Probability
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