CVE-2024-20289Cisco NX-OS Software Command Injection Vulnerability
- 4.4MediumCVSS base score
- 0.42%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 63% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, low-privileged, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments for a specific CLI command. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by including crafted input as the argument of the affected command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with the privileges of the currently logged-in user.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 10 months later
· 10 months 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 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.42% · top 63% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Affected products
- affected 9.3(3)
- affected 9.3(4)
- affected 9.3(5)
- affected 9.3(6)
- affected 10.1(2)
- affected 10.1(1)
- affected 9.3(5w)
- affected 9.3(7)
- affected 9.3(7k)
- affected 10.2(1)
- affected 9.3(7a)
- affected 9.3(8)
- affected 10.2(1q)
- affected 10.2(2)
- affected 9.3(9)
- affected 10.1(2t)
- affected 10.2(3)
- affected 10.2(3t)
- affected 9.3(10)
- affected 10.2(2a)
- affected 10.3(1)
- affected 10.2(4)
- affected 10.3(2)
- affected 9.3(11)
- affected 10.3(3)
- affected 10.2(5)
- affected 9.3(12)
- affected 10.2(3v)
- affected 10.4(1)
- affected 10.3(99w)
- affected 10.2(6)
- affected 10.3(3w)
- affected 10.3(99x)
- affected 10.3(3o)
- affected 10.3(4)
- affected 10.3(3p)
- affected 10.3(4a)
- affected 10.4(2)
- affected 10.3(3q)
- affected 10.3(3x)
- and 2 more
Cisco · Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode
- affected 16.0(2h)
- affected 16.0(2j)
- affected 16.0(3d)
- affected 16.0(3e)
- affected 16.0(4c)
- affected 16.0(5h)
- affected 16.0(3g)
- affected 16.0(5j)
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
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-2024-18004 (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
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