Root escalation via insufficiently protected access token
Published Apr 3, 2024 · Updated Aug 27, 2024
Privilege escalation in Cisco Nexus Dashboard before 3.1(1k) allows local users with rescue-user credentials to gain root access. Insufficient protection of a sensitive access token lets that account use the token to reach internal device resources beyond its intended privileges. Valid rescue-user credentials and local access are required; successful exploitation grants root access to the filesystem or hosted containers.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Cisco Nexus Dashboard before 3.1(1k) allows local users with rescue-user credentials to gain root access. Insufficient protection of a sensitive access token lets that account use the token to reach internal device resources beyond its intended privileges. Valid rescue-user credentials and local access are required; successful exploitation grants root access to the filesystem or hosted containers.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-20282
- Published
- Apr 3, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 27, 2024
- Vendor
- ClamAV
- Product
- Cisco Nexus Dashboard
- Classifications
- CWE-522, CWE-269, T1550.001
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 3, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 27, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=1.1(0c)
- Affected versionversion=1.1(0d)
- Affected versionversion=1.1(2h)
- Affected versionversion=1.1(2i)
- Affected versionversion=1.1(3c)
- Affected versionversion=1.1(3d)
- Affected versionversion=1.1(3e)
- Affected versionversion=1.1(3f)
- Affected versionversion=2.0(1b)
- Affected versionversion=2.0(1d)
- Affected versionversion=2.0(2g)
- Affected versionversion=2.0(2h)
- Affected versionversion=2.1(1d)
- Affected versionversion=2.1(1e)
- Affected versionversion=2.1(2d)
- Affected versionversion=2.1(2f)
- Affected versionversion=2.2(1e)
- Affected versionversion=2.2(1h)
- Affected versionversion=2.2(2d)
- Affected versionversion=2.3(1c)
- Affected versionversion=2.3(2b)
- Affected versionversion=2.3(2c)
- Affected versionversion=2.3(2d)
- Affected versionversion=2.3(2e)
- Affected versionversion=3.0(1f)
- Affected versionversion=3.0(1i)
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