CVE-2023-20065

HIGH

Cisco IOS XE - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco IOx application hosting subsystem of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions on the hosted application. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to and then escaping the Cisco IOx application container. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with root privileges.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 37.8%
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-284
Status published
Products (2)
cisco/ios_xe 17.6.3
cisco/ios_xe 17.11.1
Published Mar 23, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026