Unauthenticated session impersonation via token race
Published Apr 15, 2022 · Updated Sep 17, 2024
Authentication bypass in the Cisco IOx application hosting environment on Cisco IOS allows remote attackers to impersonate authenticated sessions through the upload API. A race in token allocation lets simultaneous upload calls collide with an administrator's application deployment and returns a valid session token to the attacker. Exploitation requires timing concurrent requests during deployment and can provide the privileges of the impersonated session, while Cisco reports no known malicious use.
Summary
What happened
Authentication bypass in the Cisco IOx application hosting environment on Cisco IOS allows remote attackers to impersonate authenticated sessions through the upload API. A race in token allocation lets simultaneous upload calls collide with an administrator's application deployment and returns a valid session token to the attacker. Exploitation requires timing concurrent requests during deployment and can provide the privileges of the impersonated session, while Cisco reports no known malicious use.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-20724
- Published
- Apr 15, 2022
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2024
- Vendor
- ClamAV
- Product
- Cisco IOS
- Classifications
- T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Apr 15, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 17, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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