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CVE-2020-3171

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-3171 is a local command injection vulnerability affecting Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco UCS Manager Software, including UCS 6400 Series Fabric Interconnects. An authenticated, local attacker can exploit insufficient input validation in the local management CLI to execute arbitrary commands. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating that an attacker can achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and privileges. While there is no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) and it's not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, the vulnerability has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0\(1a\)aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ucs_manager:4.0\(1a\)a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4\(1.214\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:fxos:2.4\(1.214\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4\(1.216\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:fxos:2.4\(1.216\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0048 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20200226-fxos-ucs-cli-cmdinj
Vendor Advisory