Vulnerability · Published Aug 13, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-11733

Medium 6.7

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.6% (higher than 75% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.7Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.6%top 24.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue was discovered on Spirent TestCenter and Avalanche appliance admin interface firmware. An attacker, who already has access to an SSH restricted shell, can achieve root access via shell metacharacters. The attacker can then, for example, read sensitive files such as appliance admin configuration source code. This affects Spirent TestCenter and Avalanche products which chassis version <= 5.08. The SSH restricted shell is available with default credentials.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://gist.github.com/a05110511t/65d07bc776d7c11b4ccf112a09cca4ab x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/a05110511t/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2020-11733.md x_refsource_MISC