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Cisco Warns of Vulnerability in IOS and IOS XE Software After Exploitation Attempts
Cisco is warning of attempted exploitation of a security flaw in its IOS Software and IOS XE Software that could permit an authenticated remote attacker to achieve remote code execution on affected systems. The medium-severity vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-20109, and has a CVSS score of 6.6. It impacts all versions of the software that have the GDOI or G-IKEv2 protocol enabled. The
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Cisco is warning of attempted exploitation of a security flaw in its IOS Software and IOS XE Software that could permit an authenticated remote attacker to achieve remote code execution on affected systems.
The medium-severity vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-20109, and has a CVSS score of 6.6. It impacts all versions of the software that have the GDOI or G-IKEv2 protocol enabled.
The company said the shortcoming “could allow an authenticated, remote attacker who has administrative control of either a group member or a key server to execute arbitrary code on an affected device or cause the device to crash.”
It further noted that the issue is the result of insufficient validation of attributes in the Group Domain of Interpretation (GDOI) and G-IKEv2 protocols of the GET VPN feature and it could be weaponized by either compromising an installed key server or modifying the configuration of a group member to point to a key server that is controlled by the attacker.
The vulnerability is said to have been discovered following an internal investigation and source code audit initiated after an “attempted exploitation of the GET VPN feature.”
The revelation comes as Cisco detailed a set of five flaws in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (versions 20.3 to 20.12) that could allow an attacker to access an affected instance or cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected system -
- CVE-2023-20252 (CVSS score: 9.8) - Unauthorized Access Vulnerability
- CVE-2023-20253 (CVSS score: 8.4) - Unauthorized Configuration Rollback Vulnerability
- CVE-2023-20034 (CVSS score: 7.5) - Information Disclosure Vulnerability
- CVE-2023-20254 (CVSS score: 7.2) - Authorization Bypass Vulnerability
- CVE-2023-20262 (CVSS score: 5.3) - Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
Successful exploitation of the bugs could allow the threat actor to gain unauthorized access to the application as an arbitrary user, bypass authorization and roll back controller configurations, access the Elasticsearch database of an affected system, access another tenant managed by the same instance, and cause a crash.
Customers are recommended to upgrade to a fixed software release to remediate the vulnerabilities.
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