Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Cisco BroadWorks
CVE-2023-20210
What is CVE-2023-20210?
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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Affected Version(s)
Cisco BroadWorks 24.0 ap375672
Cisco BroadWorks 24.0 ap375655
Cisco BroadWorks 24.0 ap376979
References
CVSS V3.1
Timeline
Vulnerability published
Vulnerability Reserved