CVE-2024-20282

A vulnerability in Cisco Nexus Dashboard could allow an authenticated, local attacker with valid rescue-user credentials to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient protections for a sensitive access token. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using this token to access resources within the device infrastructure. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to gain root access to the filesystem or hosted containers on an affected device.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.0 Medium

Status

Analyzed - psirt@cisco.com

Published

2024-04-03

Last modified

2024-08-27

Weaknesses

CWE-269, CWE-522

Affected products

• Cisco Nexus Dashboard (Cisco)
• Nexus Dashboard (Cisco)

References

• https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ndru-pesc-kZ2PQLZH