PT-2023-2013 · Cisco · Cisco Nx-Os+1

Published 2023-02-22 · Updated 2023-03-09 · CVE-2023-20050

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco NX-OS Software (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to specific CLI commands, allowing an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device. An attacker could exploit this by including crafted input as the argument of an affected command, potentially executing arbitrary commands with the privileges of the currently logged-in user.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

OS Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-78

Related Identifiers

BDU:2023-01640

CVE-2023-20050

Affected Products

Cisco Nx-Os

Cisco Nexus

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20050 · Security Note
• https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-nxos-cli-cmdinject-euQVK9u · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-20050 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2023-01640 · Security Note
• https://cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2023022315 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/44840 · Telegram Post