CVE-2023-20090 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2023-20090

Cisco TelePresence Collaboration Endpoint and RoomOS Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability in Cisco TelePresence CE and RoomOS could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper access control on certain CLI commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a series of crafted commands. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to root. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Cisco RoomOS Software, Cisco TelePresence Endpoint Software (TC/CE)
Vulnerable Versions:
CE9.10.2, CE9.1.4, CE9.9.3, CE9.10.3, CE9.1.5, CE9.2.4, CE9.10.1, CE9.13.0, CE9.1.2, CE9.1.1, CE9.9.4, CE9.2.1, CE9.1.3, CE9.0.1, CE9.1.6, CE9.12.4, CE9.2.2, CE9.12.3, CE9.2.3, CE9.13.1, CE9.14.3, CE9.14.4, CE9.13.2, CE9.12.5, CE9.14.5, CE9.15.0.10, CE9.15.0.11, CE9.13.3, CE9.15.0.13, CE9.14.6, CE9.15.3.17, CE9.14.7, CE9.15.0.19, CE9.15.3.19, CE9.15.3.18, CE9.15.3.22, CE9.15.8.12, CE9.15.10.8, CE9.15.3.26, CE9.15.3.25, CE9.15.13.0, CE9.15.15.4, CE9.15.16.5

Timeline

Official Publish: November 15th, 2024
Last Modified: November 15th, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-27

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.