Riskcovery

CVE-2024-20278

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Mar 27, 2024
Updated
Aug 15, 2024
Reserved
Nov 8, 2023

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Description

A vulnerability in the NETCONF feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted input over NETCONF to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges from Administrator to root.

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-184 Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco IOS XE SoftwareCisco
  • 17.6.1Affected
  • 17.6.2Affected
  • 17.6.1wAffected
  • 17.6.1aAffected
  • 17.6.1xAffected
  • 17.6.3Affected
  • 17.6.1yAffected
  • 17.6.1zAffected
  • 17.6.3aAffected
  • 17.6.4Affected
  • 17.6.1z1Affected
  • 17.6.5Affected
  • 17.6.6Affected
  • 17.6.6aAffected
  • 17.6.5aAffected
  • 17.7.1Affected
  • 17.7.1aAffected
  • 17.7.1bAffected
  • 17.7.2Affected
  • 17.10.1Affected
  • 17.10.1aAffected
  • 17.10.1bAffected
  • 17.8.1Affected
  • 17.8.1aAffected
  • 17.9.1Affected
  • and 18 more versions

References

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