CVE-2022-20762

HIGH

Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the Common Execution Environment (CEE) ConfD CLI of Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure (SMI) software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient access control in the affected CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating as a CEE ConfD CLI user and executing a specific CLI command. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to access privileged containers with root privileges.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 14.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-284
Status published
Products (1)
cisco/ultra_cloud_core_-_subscriber_microservices_infrastructure 2020.02.2.0 - 2020.02.2.47
Published Apr 06, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026