Vulnerability · Published Jun 18, 2020 · Assigned by cisco

CVE-2020-3236Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software Path Traversal Vulnerability

Medium 6.7

In plain English

A medium-severity path traversal in Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 41% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.0)6.7Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 59.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain root shell access to the underlying operating system and overwrite or read arbitrary files. The attacker would need valid administrative credentials. This vulnerability is due to improper input validation of CLI command arguments. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using path traversal techniques when executing a vulnerable command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain root shell access to the underlying operating system and overwrite or read arbitrary files on an affected device.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software	n/a

Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

20200617 Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software Path Traversal Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO