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CVE-2023-20163

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-20163 describes multiple command injection vulnerabilities in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) that allow an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with root privileges. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring high privileges, and leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no public exploit code available, and the vulnerability shows minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not being actively exploited in the wild.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:identity_services_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:identity_services_engine:3.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:identity_services_engine:3.0.0:patch1:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:identity_services_engine:3.0.0:patch2:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:identity_services_engine:3.0.0:patch3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0119 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 5,537 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 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

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ise-injection-sRQnsEU9
Vendor Advisory