CVE-2020-3229

Cisco IOS XE Software Web UI Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

High · published June 3, 2020

CVSS v3.0
8.8
EPSS
5%
Percentile
92.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A vulnerability in Role Based Access Control (RBAC) functionality of Cisco IOS XE Web Management Software could allow a Read-Only authenticated, remote attacker to execute commands or configuration changes as an Admin user. The vulnerability is due to incorrect handling of RBAC for the administration GUI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a modified HTTP request to the affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker as a Read-Only user to execute CLI commands or configuration changes as if they were an Admin user.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.05325 · 92.6th percentile
Published
2020-06-03T17:42Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 JUN 17:42Z
    Cisco IOS XE Software Web UI Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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