CVE-2022-20906 describes multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Cisco Nexus Dashboard, affecting authenticated local users. These vulnerabilities, stemming from insufficient input validation during CLI command execution, allow a high-privileged attacker (rescue-user) to execute malicious payloads and elevate privileges to root. With a CVSS score of 6.7 (Medium), the attack requires local access and high privileges, but has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), nor is it listed on CISA's KEV catalog, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 2.0, < 2.2\(1e\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:nexus_dashboard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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