Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager CLI

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager CLI

CVE-2023-20260 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A vulnerability in the application CLI of Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain escalated privileges. This vulnerability is due to improper processing of command line arguments to application scripts. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing a command on the CLI with malicious options. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain the escalated privileges of the root user on the underlying operating system.

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