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Cisco IOS XE Software Web UI Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Published Jun 3, 2020

Description

A vulnerability in Role Based Access Control (RBAC) functionality of Cisco IOS XE Web Management Software could allow a Read-Only authenticated, remote attacker to execute commands or configuration changes as an Admin user. The vulnerability is due to incorrect handling of RBAC for the administration GUI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a modified HTTP request to the affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker as a Read-Only user to execute CLI commands or configuration changes as if they were an Admin user.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

References (1)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner cisco
Published Jun 3, 2020
Updated Nov 15, 2024
Reserved Dec 12, 2019
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Nov 15, 2024
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a