Vulnerability · Published Mar 4, 2020 · Assigned by cisco

CVE-2020-3176Cisco Remote PHY Device Software Command Injection Vulnerability

Medium 6.7

In plain English

A medium-severity command injection in Cisco Remote PHY from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 39% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.0)6.7Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 61.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability in Cisco Remote PHY Device Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute commands on the underlying Linux shell of an affected device with root privileges. The vulnerability exists because the affected software does not properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker who has valid administrator access to an affected device could exploit this vulnerability by supplying certain CLI commands with crafted arguments. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to run arbitrary commands as the root user, which could result in a complete system compromise.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	Cisco Remote PHY	unspecified – before n/a

Weakness: CWE-77 · Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

20200304 Cisco Remote PHY Device Software Command Injection Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO