Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-20326

High

Published: 16 May 2024

Published
16 May 2024
Modified
25 July 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0033 56.2th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-20326 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Cisco Confd Premium. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 43.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability in the ConfD CLI and the Cisco Crosswork Network Services Orchestrator CLI could allow an authenticated, low-privileged, local attacker to read and write arbitrary files as root on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to improper…

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authorization enforcement when specific CLI commands are used. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by executing an affected CLI command with crafted arguments. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read or write arbitrary files on the underlying operating system with the privileges of the root user.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

cisco
confd basic
7.1.7, 7.8.3, 8.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.10
cisco
confd premium
7.3.5, 7.3.5.1, 7.3.5.2, 7.3.6, 7.4.5
cisco
crosswork network services orchestrator
5.1.7, 6.0.11, 6.2.1 · 5.3.5 — 5.4 · 5.4.5 — 5.5 · 5.5.3 — 5.5.10.1

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