CVE-2020-27129: cisco cisco sd-wan vmanage Argument Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-27129 is a high (CVSS 7.2) Argument Injection vulnerability in cisco cisco sd-wan vmanage. EPSS estimates a 0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 06-11-2020
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 13-11-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability in the remote management feature of Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to inject arbitrary commands and potentially gain elevated privileges. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of commands to the remote management CLI of the affected application. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious requests to the affected application. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to inject arbitrary commands and potentially gain elevated privileges.

• CWE-88Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')The product constructs a string for a command to be executed by a separate component in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the intended arguments, options, or switches within that command string.