Cisco Security Advisory - Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Common Execution Environment (CEE) ConfD CLI of Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure (SMI) software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate privileges on an affected device.

This vulnerability is due to insufficient access control in the affected CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating as a CEE ConfD CLI user and executing a specific CLI command. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to access privileged containers with root privileges.

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://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-uccsmi-prvesc-BQHGe4cm

     
         
Security Impact Rating:  High
   
   
       
CVE: CVE-2022-20762
Source: Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure Privilege Escalation Vulnerability