CVE-2022-20650

Summary

CVECVE-2022-20650
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-02-23 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:42:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability in the NX-API feature of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of user supplied data that is sent to the NX-API. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP POST request to the NX-API of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the underlying operating system. Note: The NX-API feature is disabled by default.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-78

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Cisco N9k-c9316d-gx - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c9332d-gx2b - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c9348d-gx2a - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c93600cd-gx - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c9364d-gx2a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3048 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 31108pc-v - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 31108tc-v - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 31128pq - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3132c-z - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3132q-v - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3132q-x - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3132q-xl - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3164q - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3172pq - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3172pq-xl - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3172tq-xl - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3232c - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3264c-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3264q - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3408-s - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 34180yc - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3432d-s - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3464c - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3524-x - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3524-xl - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3548-x - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3548-xl - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 36180yc-r - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3636c-r - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5548p - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5548up - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5596t - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5596up - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 56128p - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5672up - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5672up-16g - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 6000 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 6001 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 6004 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 92160yc-x - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 92300yc - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 92304qc - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 92348gc-x - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9236c - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9272q - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93108tc-ex - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93108tc-fx - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93108tc-fx3p - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93120tx - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93180yc-ex - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93180yc-fx - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93180yc-fx3 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93216tc-fx2 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93240yc-fx2 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9332c - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 93360yc-fx2 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9336c-fx2 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9336c-fx2-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9348gc-fxp - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9364c - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9364c-gx - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9504 Switch - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9508 Switch - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9516 Switch - All All All
Operating System Cisco Nx-os 10.2\(1.72\) All All All
Operating System Cisco Nx-os 7.3\(8\)n1\(0.4\) All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
20220223 Cisco NX-OS Software NX-API Command Injection Vulnerability CISCO tools.cisco.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 317136 Cisco Nexus Operating System (NX-OS) Software NX-API Command Injection Vulnerability (cisco-sa-nxos-nxapi-cmdinject-ULukNMZ2)
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