Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-20076

HighRCE

Published: 12 February 2023

Published
12 February 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0061 70.4th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-20076 is a high-severity Improper Handling of Parameters (CWE-233) vulnerability in Cisco 829 Industrial Integrated Services Router Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 29.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability in the Cisco IOx application hosting environment could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying host operating system. This vulnerability is due to incomplete sanitization of parameters that are passed in…

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for activation of an application. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by deploying and activating an application in the Cisco IOx application hosting environment with a crafted activation payload file. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying host operating system.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

cisco
ic3000 industrial compute gateway
≤ 1.4.2
cisco
iox
all versions
cisco
ios xe
17.10.0 · ≤ 17.6.5 · 17.9.0 — 17.9.2
cisco
cgr1240 firmware
≤ 1.16.0.1
cisco
cgr1000 firmware
≤ 1.16.0.1
cisco
ir510 wpan firmware
≤ 1.10.0.1
cisco
829 industrial integrated services router firmware
15.9\(3\)m, 15.9\(3\)m1, 15.9\(3\)m2, 15.9\(3\)m2a, 15.9\(3\)m3 · ≤ 15.9\(3\)
cisco
807 industrial integrated services router firmware
15.9\(3\)m, 15.9\(3\)m1, 15.9\(3\)m2, 15.9\(3\)m2a, 15.9\(3\)m3 · ≤ 15.9\(3\)
cisco
809 industrial integrated services router firmware
15.9\(3\)m, 15.9\(3\)m1, 15.9\(3\)m2, 15.9\(3\)m2a, 15.9\(3\)m3 · ≤ 15.9\(3\)

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.

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