- 8.1HighCVSS base score
- 12.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A vulnerability in Cisco RCM for Cisco StarOS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform remote code execution on the application with root-level privileges in the context of the configured container. This vulnerability exists because the debug mode is incorrectly enabled for specific services. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by connecting to the device and navigating to the service with debug mode enabled. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as the root user. The attacker would need to perform detailed reconnaissance to allow for unauthenticated access. The vulnerability can also be exploited by an authenticated attacker. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciscoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 12.0% · top 3.8% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Affected products
Cisco · Cisco Redundancy Configuration Manager
- affected 2021.02.0
- affected 2021.01.0
- affected 21.19.n13
- affected 21.17.19
- affected 21.18.24
- affected 21.25.0
- affected 21.15.60
- affected 21.22.11
- affected 21.20.25
- affected 21.20.21
- affected 21.24.2
- affected 21.23.10
- affected 21.22.n5
- affected 21.15.57
- affected 21.25.1
- affected 21.18.21
- affected 21.23.1
- affected 21.19.11
- affected 21.16.c16
- affected 21.23.5
- affected 21.22.4
- affected 21.22.ua2
- affected 21.23.n6
- affected 21.17.18
- affected 21.17.17
- affected 21.21.KS2
- affected 21.20.23
- affected 21.20.15
- affected 21.20.p9
- affected 21.20.17
- affected 21.20.14
- affected 21.21.3
- affected 21.19.n9
- affected 21.23.0
- affected 21.5.30
- affected 21.22.n4
- affected 21.20.12
- affected 21.23.b2
- affected 21.20.13
- affected 21.18.22
- and 460 more
What to do
Exploitation: The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerabilities that is described in this advisory.
References
References3
- cisco-sa-rcm-vuls-7cS3Nuq (opens in a new tab)
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-webex-xss-FmbPu2pe (opens in a new tab)
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-tetr-cmd-injc-skrwGO (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-25899 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2022-20649)Record last updated .