CVE-2022-20864

published 2022-10-10

CVE-2022-20864: A vulnerability in the password-recovery disable feature of Cisco IOS XE ROM Monitor (ROMMON) Software for Cisco Catalyst Switches could allow an…

Priority P4 20 medium 4.6 CVSS 3.1

AV P AC L PR N UI N S U C H I N A N

A vulnerability in the password-recovery disable feature of Cisco IOS XE ROM Monitor (ROMMON) Software for Cisco Catalyst Switches could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to recover the configuration or reset the enable password. This vulnerability is due to a problem with the file and boot variable permissions in ROMMON. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by rebooting the switch into ROMMON and entering specific commands through the console. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read any file or reset the enable password.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
cisco	cisco_ios_xe_software	—	—
cisco	ios_xe_rom_monitor	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 4.6 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

vendor_cisco 4.6 MEDIUM

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