Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-20015

Medium

Published: 23 February 2023

Published
23 February 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0011 29.7th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-20015 is a medium-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Cisco Ucs Central Software. Its CVSS base score is 6.0 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 29.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Firepower 4100 Series, Cisco Firepower 9300 Security Appliances, and Cisco UCS 6200, 6300, 6400, and 6500 Series Fabric Interconnects could allow an authenticated, local attacker to inject unauthorized commands. This vulnerability is due…

more

to insufficient input validation of commands supplied by the user. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to a device and submitting crafted input to the affected command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute unauthorized commands within the CLI. An attacker with Administrator privileges could also execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of Cisco UCS 6400 and 6500 Series Fabric Interconnects with root-level privileges.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

cisco
ucs central software
4.0 — 4.0\(4o\) · 4.1 — 4.1\(3k\) · 4.2 — 4.2\(2d\)
cisco
ucs 6536 firmware
all versions
cisco
ucs 64108 firmware
all versions
cisco
ucs 6454 firmware
all versions
cisco
ucs 6200 firmware
all versions
cisco
ucs 6248up firmware
all versions
cisco
ucs 6296up firmware
all versions
cisco
ucs 6300 firmware
all versions
cisco
ucs 6324 firmware
all versions
cisco
ucs 6332 firmware
all versions
+2 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

References