CVE-2023-20217 (GCVE-0-2023-20217)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-16 21:39
Modified
2025-07-03 14:03
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-250 - Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Summary
A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent, Virtual Appliance installation type, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation by the operating system CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing certain commands using sudo. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to view arbitrary files as root on the underlying operating system. The attacker must have valid credentials on the affected device.
References
ykramarz@cisco.comhttps://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-te-va-priv-esc-PUdgrx8EVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-te-va-priv-esc-PUdgrx8EVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Cisco Cisco ThousandEyes Recorder Application Version: N/A
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