CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-20864

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2022-10-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-10-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-538

Description

A vulnerability in the password-recovery disable feature of Cisco IOS XE ROM Monitor (ROMMON) Software for Cisco Catalyst Switches could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to recover the configuration or reset the enable password. This vulnerability is due to a problem with the file and boot variable permissions in ROMMON. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by rebooting the switch into ROMMON and entering specific commands through the console. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read any file or reset the enable password.

Affected configurations

• cisco ios xe rom monitor

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-538 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory weakness

References