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CVE-2023-20193

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-20193 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Embedded Service Router (ESR) of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) that allows an authenticated, local attacker with Administrator-level privileges to read, write, or delete arbitrary files and achieve root access. This vulnerability stems from improper privilege management within the ESR console. The CVSS score is 6.7 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low attack complexity, but high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:identity_services_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.0, <= 3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:identity_services_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
8.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0019 is in the 48th 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

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ise-priv-esc-KJLp2Aw
Vendor Advisory