CVE-2024-20348: cisco cisco data center network manager Path Traversal: 'dir/../../filename'

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-20348 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Path Traversal: 'dir/../../filename' vulnerability in cisco cisco data center network manager. EPSS estimates a 0.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 03-04-2024
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 01-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability in the Out-of-Band (OOB) Plug and Play (PnP) feature of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to read arbitrary files. This vulnerability is due to an unauthenticated provisioning web server. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability through direct web requests to the provisioning server. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read sensitive files in the PnP container that could facilitate further attacks on the PnP infrastructure.

• CWE-27Path Traversal: 'dir/../../filename'The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize multiple internal "../" sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.
• CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.