VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-20076

CVSS score7.2 HIGH
EPSS probability1.51%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-02-12
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco IOx application hosting environment could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying host operating system. This vulnerability is due to incomplete sanitization of parameters that are passed in for activation of an application. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by deploying and activating an application in the Cisco IOx application hosting environment with a crafted activation payload file. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying host operating system.

Weakness classification

  • psirt@cisco.com: CWE-233
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-78

Primary references