CVE-2024-20356

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with Administrator-level privileges to perform comma

Severity
High 8.7
CVSS 3.1
Remote, needs privileges or user interaction what this means
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.327
98.3th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Vendor-published field
Published
Apr 24, 2024
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with Administrator-level privileges to perform command injection attacks on an affected system and elevate their privileges to root. This vulnerability is due to insufficient user input validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted commands to the web-based management interface of the affected software. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate their privileges to root.

Weakness: CWE-78

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Other Products cna-assigner
Vendor-reported products (4)
  • Cisco · Cisco Unified Computing System (Standalone)
  • Cisco · Cisco Unified Computing System E-Series Software (UCSE)
  • cisco · unified_computing_system
  • cisco · unified_computing_system_e-series

Vendor advisory

cisco-sa-cimc-cmd-inj-bLuPcb

Cisco Integrated Management Controller Web-Based Management Interface Command Injection Vulnerability

Cisco’s rating: High (advisory CVSS 8.7) · Published Apr 17, 2024 · updated Jun 28, 2024 (revision 1.2)

Bug IDs: CSCwi42996 , CSCwi43001 , CSCwi43005 , CSCwj41082

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