CVE-2020-3213

MEDIUM

Cisco IOS XE - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the ROMMON of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to those of the root user of the underlying operating system. The vulnerability is due to the ROMMON allowing for special parameters to be passed to the device at initial boot up. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending parameters to the device at initial boot up. An exploit could allow the attacker to elevate from a Priv15 user to the root user and execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the root user.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 6.7
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 13.1%
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-264
Status published
Products (50)
cisco/ios_xe 3.8.0s
cisco/ios_xe 3.8.1s
cisco/ios_xe 3.8.2s
cisco/ios_xe 3.9.0as
cisco/ios_xe 3.9.0s
cisco/ios_xe 3.9.1as
cisco/ios_xe 3.9.1s
cisco/ios_xe 3.9.2s
cisco/ios_xe 3.10.0s
cisco/ios_xe 3.10.1s
... and 40 more
Published Jun 03, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026