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CVE-2023-20231

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-20231 is a high-severity vulnerability in the web UI of Cisco IOS XE Software, allowing an authenticated, remote attacker to perform an injection attack due to insufficient input validation. This flaw could enable the execution of arbitrary Cisco IOS XE CLI commands with level 15 privileges. While the CVSS score is 8.8 (High), exploitation requires obtaining credentials for a non-default Lobby Ambassador account. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
16.12.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.12.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.12.4aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.12.4a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.12.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.12.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.12.5aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.12.5a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.12.5bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.12.5b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0074 is in the 44th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-webui-cmdij-FzZAeXAy
Vendor Advisory