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CVE-2020-3503

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-3503 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco IOS XE Software, allowing an authenticated, local attacker to gain read and write access to critical system files due to insufficient file system permissions. An attacker could exploit this by accessing the device's guest shell, potentially viewing or modifying restricted information or configurations. The CVSS score is 6.0, indicating high confidentiality and integrity impacts with no availability impact. There is no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
16.12.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.0MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
19.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0028 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-unauth-file-access-eBTWkKVW
Vendor Advisory