Riskcovery

CVE-2026-20246

Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
6.0 Medium
Published
Jun 17, 2026
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
Reserved
Oct 8, 2025

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Description

A vulnerability in the vmadmin CLI of Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges on an affected device.

This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied commands. An attacker with vmadmin privileges could exploit this vulnerability by using certain commands at the CLI. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to root.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Umbrella Insights Virtual ApplianceCisco
  • 2.6.0Affected
  • 2.5.6Affected
  • 2.5Affected
  • 2.4.12Affected
  • 2.7Affected
  • 2.6.2Affected
  • 2.5.5Affected
  • 2.5.4Affected
  • 2.8Affected
  • 2.6.1Affected
  • 2.5.7Affected
  • 1.5.4Affected
  • 1.5.5Affected
  • 1.5.6Affected
  • 2.0.0Affected
  • 2.0.2Affected
  • 2.0.3Affected
  • 2.1.0Affected
  • 2.1.2Affected
  • 2.1.4Affected
  • 2.1.5Affected
  • 2.2Affected
  • 2.2.1Affected
  • 2.3Affected
  • 2.3.1Affected
  • and 48 more versions

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