CVE-2023-20040

A vulnerability in the NETCONF service of Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) on an affected system that is running as the root user. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must be a member of the admin group. This vulnerability exists because user-supplied input is not properly validated when NETCONF is used to upload packages to an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by uploading a specially crafted package file. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to write crafted files to arbitrary locations on the filesystem or delete arbitrary files from the filesystem of an affected device, resulting in a DoS condition. Note: By default, during install, Cisco NSO will be set up to run as the root user unless the --run-as-user option is used.

• cisco network services orchestrator (>= 3.3 < 5.4.7) • cisco network services orchestrator (>= 5.5 < 5.5.6) • cisco network services orchestrator (>= 5.6 < 5.6.7) • cisco network services orchestrator (>= 5.7 < 5.7.4) • cisco network services orchestrator 5.8