CVE-2023-20209

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Aug 16, 2023
Updated
Dec 16, 2025
Reserved
Oct 27, 2022

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Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Expressway Series and Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with read-write privileges on the application to perform a command injection attack that could result in remote code execution on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted request to the web-based management interface of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to establish a remote shell with root privileges.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) ExpresswayCisco
  • X8.5.1Affected
  • X8.5.3Affected
  • X8.5Affected
  • X8.6.1Affected
  • X8.6Affected
  • X8.1.1Affected
  • X8.1.2Affected
  • X8.1Affected
  • X8.2.1Affected
  • X8.2.2Affected
  • X8.2Affected
  • X8.7.1Affected
  • X8.7.2Affected
  • X8.7.3Affected
  • X8.7Affected
  • X8.8.1Affected
  • X8.8.2Affected
  • X8.8.3Affected
  • X8.8Affected
  • X8.9.1Affected
  • X8.9.2Affected
  • X8.9Affected
  • X8.10.0Affected
  • X8.10.1Affected
  • X8.10.2Affected
  • and 42 more versions

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