CVE-2022-20773

HIGH

Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance (VA) - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the key-based SSH authentication mechanism of Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance (VA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to impersonate a VA. This vulnerability is due to the presence of a static SSH host key. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by performing a man-in-the-middle attack on an SSH connection to the Umbrella VA. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to learn the administrator credentials, change configurations, or reload the VA. Note: SSH is not enabled by default on the Umbrella VA.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0109
EPSS Percentile 61.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-321 CWE-798
Status published
Products (1)
cisco/umbrella < 3.3.2
Published Apr 21, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026