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CVE-2024-20281

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-20281 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Nexus Dashboard and its hosted services, including Fabric Controller, Insights, and Orchestrator. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform arbitrary actions with the privileges of an affected user by tricking them into clicking a malicious link. If the user has administrative privileges, this could lead to system configuration modification and creation of new privileged accounts. While the vulnerability is severe, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.1(1k)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:nexus_dashboard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 12.0.0, < 12.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:nexus_dashboard_fabric_controller:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 6.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:nexus_dashboard_insights:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 4.3(1.1008)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:nexus_dashboard_orchestrator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
17.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0026 is in the 19th percentile among its peer group of 14,875 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ndfccsrf-TEmZEfJ9
Vendor Advisory