vulnerability

Cisco XE: CVE-2023-20076: Cisco IOx Application Hosting Environment Command Injection Vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 1, 2023
Added
Feb 2, 2023
Modified
Oct 8, 2025

Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco IOx application hosting environment could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying host operating system. This vulnerability is due to incomplete sanitization of parameters that are passed in for activation of an application. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by deploying and activating an application in the Cisco IOx application hosting environment with a crafted activation payload file. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying host operating system.

Solution

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Title
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