Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Cisco ASR 5000 Series and Cisco StarOS - CVE-2020-3602
Published: October 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU47435
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-3602
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation of CLI commands. A local administrator can send a specially crafted commands to the CLI and execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Affected software
Cisco ASR 5000 Series
Cisco StarOS
Cisco StarOS
How to mitigate CVE-2020-3602
Install updates from vendor's website.
Cisco StarOS - update to 21.19.n4