CVE-2022-20676

Summary

CVECVE-2022-20676
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-04-15 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:42:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability in the Tool Command Language (Tcl) interpreter of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate from privilege level 15 to root-level privileges. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of data that is passed into the Tcl interpreter. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by loading malicious Tcl code on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root. By default, Tcl shell access requires privilege level 15.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cisco Ios Xe - All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios Xe - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
20220413 Cisco IOS XE Software Tool Command Language Privilege Escalation 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

  • 317162 Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS) XE Software Tool Command Language Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (cisco-sa-iosxe-priv-esc-grbtubU)
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