Vulnerability · Published Jan 17, 2024 · Assigned by cisco
CVE-2023-20260
Medium 6.0
In plain English
A medium-severity improper access control in Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager (EPNM) from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 7% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A vulnerability in the application CLI of Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain escalated privileges. This vulnerability is due to improper processing of command line arguments to application scripts. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing a command on the CLI with malicious options. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain the escalated privileges of the root user on the underlying operating system.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Cisco | Cisco Prime Infrastructure | 2.0.02.0.102.0.392.1.02.1.12.1.22.1.562.2.0 |
| Cisco | Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager (EPNM) | 1.2.61.2.21.2.31.2.51.2.1.21.2.41.2.71.2 |
Weakness: CWE-284 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N