CVE-2022-20681

HIGH

Cisco IOS XE - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco IOS XE Software for Cisco Catalyst 9000 Family Switches and Cisco Catalyst 9000 Family Wireless Controllers could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to level 15 on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user privileges after the user executes certain CLI commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to an affected device as a low-privileged user and then executing certain CLI commands. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with level 15 privileges on the affected device.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 29.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-266
Status published
Products (50)
cisco/ios_xe 16.11.1
cisco/ios_xe 16.11.1a
cisco/ios_xe 16.11.1b
cisco/ios_xe 16.11.1c
cisco/ios_xe 16.11.1s
cisco/ios_xe 16.11.2
cisco/ios_xe 16.12.1
cisco/ios_xe 16.12.1a
cisco/ios_xe 16.12.1c
cisco/ios_xe 16.12.1s
... and 40 more
Published Apr 15, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026