Vulnerability CVE-2023-20217


Published: 2023-08-16   Modified: 2023-08-17

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

This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation by the operating system CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing certain commands using sudo. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to view arbitrary files as root on the underlying operating system. The attacker must have valid credentials on the affected device.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent Virtual Appliance Arbitrary File Read
Hank Leininger
19.08.2023

 References:
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-te-va-priv-esc-PUdgrx8E

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