Cisco Security Advisory - Cisco IOx Application Hosting Environment Command Injection Vulnerability

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Cisco IOx Application Hosting Environment Command Injection Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Cisco IOx application hosting environment could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying host operating system.

This vulnerability is due to incomplete sanitization of parameters that are passed in for activation of an application. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by deploying and activating an application in the Cisco IOx application hosting environment with a crafted activation payload file. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying host operating system. 

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-iox-8whGn5dL

     
         
Security Impact Rating:  High
   
   
       
CVE: CVE-2023-20076
Source: Cisco IOx Application Hosting Environment Command Injection Vulnerability