Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Cisco BroadWorks

CVE-2023-20210

Summary

A security issue in Cisco BroadWorks allows authenticated local attackers to escalate their privileges to the root user level. This flaw stems from inadequate input validation in the operating system command line interface (CLI). Attackers with administrative privileges can exploit this by issuing specially crafted commands, potentially leading to executing commands as the root user, which poses significant risks to the integrity and stability of the affected device.

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