vulnerability

Cisco UCS Manager: CVE-2024-20397: Cisco NX-OS Software Image Verification Bypass Vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:C/A:N)
Published
Dec 4, 2024
Added
Dec 5, 2024
Modified
Feb 21, 2025

Description

A vulnerability in the bootloader of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated attacker with physical access to an affected device, or an authenticated, local attacker with administrative credentials, to bypass NX-OS image signature verification.

This vulnerability is due to insecure bootloader settings. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by executing a series of bootloader commands. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass NX-OS image signature verification and load unverified software.

Solution

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