Riskcovery

CVE-2023-20115

State
Published
Severity
5.4 Medium
Published
Aug 23, 2023
Updated
Oct 2, 2024
Reserved
Oct 27, 2022

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Description

A vulnerability in the SFTP server implementation for Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches and 9000 Series Switches in standalone NX-OS mode could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to download or overwrite files from the underlying operating system of an affected device. This vulnerability is due to a logic error when verifying the user role when an SFTP connection is opened to an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by connecting and authenticating via SFTP as a valid, non-administrator user. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read or overwrite files from the underlying operating system with the privileges of the authenticated user. There are workarounds that address this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Ncisco

Weaknesses

  • CWE-671 Lack of Administrator Control over Security

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco NX-OS SoftwareCisco
  • 9.2(1)Affected
  • 9.2(2)Affected
  • 9.2(2t)Affected
  • 9.2(3)Affected
  • 9.2(4)Affected
  • 9.2(2v)Affected
  • 9.3(1)Affected
  • 9.3(2)Affected
  • 9.3(3)Affected
  • 9.3(4)Affected
  • 9.3(5)Affected
  • 9.3(6)Affected
  • 9.3(7)Affected
  • 9.3(7a)Affected
  • 9.3(8)Affected
  • 9.3(9)Affected
  • 9.3(10)Affected
  • 9.3(11)Affected
  • 10.1(1)Affected
  • 10.1(2)Affected
  • 10.1(2t)Affected
  • 10.2(1)Affected
  • 10.2(1q)Affected
  • 10.2(2)Affected
  • 10.2(3)Affected
  • and 5 more versions

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