CVE-2023-20050

Summary

CVECVE-2023-20050
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-02-23 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 04:05:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments that are passed to specific CLI commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by including crafted input as the argument of an affected command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with the privileges of the currently logged-in user.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-78

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Cisco Mds 9000 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9100 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9132t - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9134 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9140 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9148 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9148s - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9148t - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9200 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9216 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9216a - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9216i - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9222i - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9250i - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9396s - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9396t - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9500 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9506 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9509 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9513 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9700 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9706 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9710 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Mds 9718 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 1000v - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 1000v - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 1000 Virtual Edge - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3016 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3016q - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3048 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3064 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3064-32t - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3064-t - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3064-x - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3064t - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3064x - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3100 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3100-v - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3100-z - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3100v - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 31108pc-v - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 31108pv-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 - 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 3132q-x/3132q-xl - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3164q - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3172 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3172pq - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3172pq-xl - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3172pq/pq-xl - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3172tq - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3172tq-32t - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3172tq-xl - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3200 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3232c - 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 3400 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3408-s - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 34180yc - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 34200yc-sm - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3432d-s - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3464c - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3500 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3524 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3524-x - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3524-xl - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3524-x/xl - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3548 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3548-x - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3548-xl - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3548-x/xl - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3600 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 36180yc-r - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 3636c-r - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5500 - 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 5600 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 56128p - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5624q - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5648q - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5672up - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5672up-16g - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 5696q - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 6000 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 6001 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 6001p - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 6001t - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 6004 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 6004x - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 7000 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 7004 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 7009 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 7010 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 7018 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 7700 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 7702 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 7706 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 7710 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 7718 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9000 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Nexus 9000v - All All All
Operating System Cisco Nx-os All All All All
Operating System Cisco Nx-os - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Cisco NX-OS Software CLI Command Injection 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

  • 317298 Cisco Nexus Operating System (NX-OS) Software CLI Command Injection Vulnerability (cisco-sa-nxos-cli-cmdinject-euQVK9u)
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