CVE-2023-20210A vulnerability in Cisco BroadWorks could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to the root user on an affected…
- 6.0MediumCVSS base score
- 0.20%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 90% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A vulnerability in Cisco BroadWorks could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to the root user on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation by the operating system CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing a crafted command to the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands as the root user. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must have valid BroadWorks administrative privileges on the affected device.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Published
- 13 months later
· 13 months later
Record updated
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 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.20% · top 90% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Affected products
- affected 24.0 ap375672
- affected 24.0 ap375655
- affected 24.0 ap376979
- affected 24.0 ap379112
- affected 24.0 ap379588
- affected 24.0 ap378485
- affected 24.0 ap376934
- affected 24.0 ap379533
- affected 24.0 ap374230
- affected 24.0 ap378382
- affected 24.0 ap375720
- affected 24.0 ap378575
- affected 24.0 ap378248
- affected 24.0 ap378990
- affected 24.0 ap378425
- affected 24.0 ap377319
- affected 24.0 ap378818
- affected 24.0 ap375453
- affected 24.0 ap376317
- affected 24.0 ap376677
- affected 24.0 ap375688
- affected 24.0 ap377147
- affected 24.0 ap376945
- affected 24.0 ap377517
- affected 24.0 ap376205
- affected 24.0 ap378257
- affected 24.0 ap378471
- affected 24.0 ap376669
- affected 24.0 ap375756
- affected 24.0 ap378440
- affected 24.0 ap376486
- affected 24.0 ap378920
- affected 24.0 ap375734
- affected 24.0 ap378144
- affected 24.0 ap375036
- affected 24.0 ap375624
- affected 24.0 ap378882
- affected 24.0 ap376531
- affected 24.0 ap375804
- affected 24.0 ap376137
- and 9156 more
What to do
Exploitation: The Cisco PSIRT is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory.
References
References1
- cisco-sa-bw-privesc-yw4ekrXW (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
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-2023-24389 (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)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-20210)Record last updated .