CVE-2023-20224 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2023-20224

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent,...

Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent, Virtual Appliance installation type, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of user-supplied CLI arguments. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to an affected device and using crafted commands at the prompt. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root. The attacker must have valid credentials on the affected device.

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.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Cisco ThousandEyes Recorder Application
Vulnerable Versions:
1.0.5, 1.0.4, 1.0.3

Timeline

Official Publish: August 16th, 2023
Last Modified: August 2nd, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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

Weaknesses (CWE)