CVE-2023-20029

Summary

CVECVE-2023-20029
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-03-23 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 04:05:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability in the Meraki onboarding feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain root level privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient memory protection in the Meraki onboarding feature of an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by modifying the Meraki registration parameters. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to root.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9200 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9200cx - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9200l - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-24p-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-24p-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-24s-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-24s-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-24t-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-24t-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-24u-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-24u-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-24ux-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-24ux-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-48p-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-48p-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-48s-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-48s-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-48t-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-48t-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-48u-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-48u-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-48un-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-48un-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-48uxm-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300-48uxm-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l-24p-4g-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l-24p-4g-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l-24p-4x-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l-24p-4x-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l-24t-4g-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l-24t-4g-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l-24t-4x-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l-24t-4x-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l-48p-4g-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l-48p-4g-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l-48p-4x-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l-48p-4x-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l-48t-4g-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l-48t-4g-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l-48t-4x-a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l-48t-4x-e - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300lm - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300l Stack - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9300x - All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios Xe 17.7.1 All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios Xe 17.8.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Cisco IOS XE Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CISCO sec.cloudapps.cisco.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 317313 Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS) XE Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (cisco-sa-iosxe-priv-esc-sABD8hcU)
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