CVE-2020-3205

HIGH

Cisco IOS for Industrial ISRs and CGR1000 - Unauthenticated OS Command Injection via Inter-VM Channel

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the implementation of the inter-VM channel of Cisco IOS Software for Cisco 809 and 829 Industrial Integrated Services Routers (Industrial ISRs) and Cisco 1000 Series Connected Grid Routers (CGR1000) could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands on the Virtual Device Server (VDS) of an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of signaling packets that are destined to VDS. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands in the context of the Linux shell of VDS with the privileges of the root user. Because the device is designed on a hypervisor architecture, exploitation of a vulnerability that affects the inter-VM channel may lead to a complete system compromise. For more information about this vulnerability, see the Details section of this advisory.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0037
EPSS Percentile 58.9%
Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-78 CWE-20
Status published
Products (50)
cisco/ios 12.2\(60\)ez16
cisco/ios 15.0\(2\)sg11a
cisco/ios 15.2\(4\)jaz1
cisco/ios 15.3\(3\)jaa1
cisco/ios 15.3\(3\)jpi
cisco/ios 15.3\(3\)jpj
cisco/ios 15.4\(1\)cg
cisco/ios 15.4\(2\)cg
cisco/ios 15.4\(3\)m
cisco/ios 15.4\(3\)m1
... and 40 more
Published Jun 03, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026