CVE-2022-20732: Cisco Virtualized Infrastructure Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-04-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

A vulnerability in the configuration file protections of Cisco Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to access confidential information and elevate privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper access permissions for certain configuration files. An attacker with low-privileged credentials could exploit this vulnerability by accessing an affected device and reading the affected configuration files. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain internal database credentials, which the attacker could use to view and modify the contents of the database. The attacker could use this access to the database to elevate privileges on the affected device.

Affected products

Cisco Virtualized Infrastructure Manager: before 4.2.2 — fixed in 4.2.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Cisco Virtualized Infrastructure Manager 4.2.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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