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CVE-2023-20065

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2023-03-23 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco IOx application hosting subsystem of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions on the hosted application. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to and then escaping the Cisco IOx application container. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with root privileges.

Affected Platforms

Cisco Asr 920-24Sz-M RCisco 1100-8P Integrated Services RouterCisco Catalyst 3850-24U-ECisco Catalyst 9800-40Cisco 1101 Integrated Services RouterCisco Catalyst 3850-48F-ECisco Catalyst Ie3400Cisco 8800 8-SlotCisco Catalyst 3850-24U-SCisco Asr 1006

Weakness Type

CWE-284, NVD-CWE-noinfo

References