CVE-2024-20366 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Tail-f High Availability Cluster Communications (HCC) function pack of Cisco Crosswork Network Services Orchestrator (NSO). An authenticated, local attacker can exploit a user-controlled search path to execute arbitrary code as root. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a significant impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 5.0, < 5.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:network_services_orchestrator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.0, < 6.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:network_services_orchestrator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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