CVE-2020-3215

Cisco IOS XE Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 6.7 Medium
Published: Jun 3, 2020
Updated: Nov 15, 2024
Reserved: Dec 12, 2019

Description

A vulnerability in the Virtual Services Container of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain root-level privileges on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of a user-supplied open virtual appliance (OVA). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by installing a malicious OVA on an affected device.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	6.7 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	cisco

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cisco IOS XE Software 3.8.0SCisco	n/aAffected

References

20200603 Cisco IOS XE Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilityvendor-advisory

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