Vulnerability · Published Jun 3, 2020 · Assigned by cisco

CVE-2020-3213Cisco IOS XE Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Medium 6.7

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Cisco IOS XE Software 3.8.0S 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 37% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.0)6.7Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 63.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability in the ROMMON of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to those of the root user of the underlying operating system. The vulnerability is due to the ROMMON allowing for special parameters to be passed to the device at initial boot up. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending parameters to the device at initial boot up. An exploit could allow the attacker to elevate from a Priv15 user to the root user and execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the root user.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	Cisco IOS XE Software 3.8.0S	n/a

Weakness: CWE-264 · Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

20200603 Cisco IOS XE Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO