Privilege escalation via client-side RBAC enforcement
Published May 13, 2024 · Updated Feb 13, 2025
Authorization bypass in Extreme Networks ExtremeXOS before 22.7 and before 30.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute admin commands. Chalet enforces RBAC only in client-side navigation, so a read-only account can request concealed administrative URLs such as /app/filelist/ directly. A low-privileged Chalet session is required; successful requests expose file operations, CLI commands, and switch configuration changes.
Summary
What happened
Authorization bypass in Extreme Networks ExtremeXOS before 22.7 and before 30.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute admin commands. Chalet enforces RBAC only in client-side navigation, so a read-only account can request concealed administrative URLs such as /app/filelist/ directly. A low-privileged Chalet session is required; successful requests expose file operations, CLI commands, and switch configuration changes.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2020-18305
- Published
- May 13, 2024
- Updated
- Feb 13, 2025
- Vendor
- Extreme Networks
- Product
- ExtremeXOS
- Classifications
- CWE-287, T1210
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 13, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 13, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=22.7 <30.2
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Public exploit references
- Chalet Web GUI privilege-escalation proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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