CVE-2023-20029CWE-122

Cisco IOS XE Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Medium · published March 23, 2023

CVSS v3.1
4.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A vulnerability in the Meraki onboarding feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain root level privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient memory protection in the Meraki onboarding feature of an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by modifying the Meraki registration parameters. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to root.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00168 · 5.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Published
2023-03-23T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 MAR 00:00Z
    Cisco IOS XE Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
    cvelistv5