CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-20029

7.8 HIGH Published 2023-03-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-03-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-122

Description

A vulnerability in the Meraki onboarding feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain root level privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient memory protection in the Meraki onboarding feature of an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by modifying the Meraki registration parameters. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to root.

Affected configurations

• cisco ios xe 17.7.1 • cisco ios xe 17.8.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow weakness

References