Cisco Security Advisory - Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent Virtual Appliance Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent Virtual Appliance Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent, Virtual Appliance installation type, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device.

This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of user-supplied CLI arguments. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to an affected device and using crafted commands at the prompt. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root. The attacker must have valid credentials on the affected device.

Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

This advisory is available at the following link:
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-thoueye-privesc-NVhHGwb3

     
         
Security Impact Rating:  High
   
   
       
CVE: CVE-2023-20224
Source: Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent Virtual Appliance Privilege Escalation Vulnerability