CVE-2020-3216 is a vulnerability in Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN Software that allows an unauthenticated, physical attacker to bypass authentication and gain unrestricted root shell access. The vulnerability stems from insufficient authentication mechanisms for specific commands, exploitable by stopping the device's boot initialization. This is a medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.8) requiring physical access (AV:P) but with low attack complexity (AC:L), leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
16.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe_sd-wan:16.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
16.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe_sd-wan:16.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
16.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe_sd-wan:16.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
16.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe_sd-wan:16.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
16.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe_sd-wan:16.9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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