CVE-2022-20762CWE-284

Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

High · published April 6, 2022

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
17.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A vulnerability in the Common Execution Environment (CEE) ConfD CLI of Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure (SMI) software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient access control in the affected CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating as a CEE ConfD CLI user and executing a specific CLI command. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to access privileged containers with root privileges.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00263 · 17.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
Published
2022-04-06T18:13Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 APR 18:13Z
    Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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