Vulnerability · Published Aug 25, 2022 · Assigned by cisco

CVE-2022-20865Cisco FXOS Software Command Injection Vulnerability

Medium 6.7

In plain English

A medium-severity OS command injection in Cisco Firepower Extensible Operating System (FXOS) 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 28% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.7Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 72.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco FXOS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to inject arbitrary commands that are executed with root privileges. The attacker would need to have Administrator privileges on the device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of commands supplied by the user. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to a device and submitting crafted input to the affected command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands on the underlying operating system with root privileges.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	Cisco Firepower Extensible Operating System (FXOS)	n/a

Weakness: CWE-78 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

20220824 Cisco FXOS Software Command Injection Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO