CVE-2023-20217

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-20217
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-08-16 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2024-01-25 17:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent, Virtual Appliance installation type, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation by the operating system CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing certain commands using sudo. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to view arbitrary files as root on the underlying operating system. The attacker must have valid credentials on the affected device.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cisco Thousandeyes Enterprise Agent All All All All
Application Cisco Thousandeyes Recorder - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent Virtual Appliance Privilege Escalation Vulnerability MISC sec.cloudapps.cisco.com
Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent Virtual Appliance Arbitrary File Read ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
Full Disclosure: KL-001-2023-001: Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent Virtual Appliance Arbitrary File Read via sudo dig MISC seclists.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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