Vulnerability · Published Apr 6, 2022 · Assigned by cisco

CVE-2022-20762Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity improper access control in Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 18% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 81.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure	n/a

Weakness: CWE-284 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

20220302 Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure Privilege Escalation Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO