🛡️ CVE-2023-20217
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-250 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent, Virtual Appliance installation type, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation by the operating system CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing certain commands using sudo. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to view arbitrary files as root on the underlying operating system. The attacker must have valid credentials on the affected device.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-250
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-08-16
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
thousandeyes-enterprise-agent 0.230
thousandeyes-recorder

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