CVE-2022-20681

Severity

78%

Complexity

18%

Confidentiality

98%

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco IOS XE Software for Cisco Catalyst 9000 Family Switches and Cisco Catalyst 9000 Family Wireless Controllers could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to level 15 on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user privileges after the user executes certain CLI commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to an affected device as a low-privileged user and then executing certain CLI commands. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with level 15 privileges on the affected device.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 2 years ago

2022-04-15 15:15:00

Last updated 2 years ago

2022-04-25 18:07:00

Affected Software

Cisco IOS XE

Cisco IOS XE 16.11.1

16.11.1

Cisco IOS XE 16.12.1

16.12.1

Cisco IOS XE 16.12.1Y

16.12.1y

Cisco IOS XE 16.12.2

16.12.2

Cisco IOS XE 16.12.2A

16.12.2a

Cisco IOS XE 16.12.4

16.12.4

Cisco IOS XE 17.1.1

17.1.1

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