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CVE-2024-20356

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 29.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with Administrator-level privileges to perform command injection attacks on an affected system and elevate their privileges to root. This vulnerability is due to insufficient user input validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted commands to the web-based management interface of the affected software. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate their privileges to root.

Affected products

• Cisco Unified Computing System (Managed): all versions
• Cisco Unified Computing System E-Series: all versions

References

• https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-cimc-cmd-inj-bLuPcb
• https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-cimc-cmd-inj-bLuPcb

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