CVE-2020-3169

MEDIUM

Cisco FXOS Software - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco FXOS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with a privilege level of root on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to a specific CLI command on the affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by including malicious input as the argument of an affected command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with root privileges. An attacker would need valid administrator credentials to exploit this vulnerability.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 6.7
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 34.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-78
Status published
Products (1)
cisco/firepower_extensible_operating_system 2.2 - 2.2.2.97
Published Feb 26, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026