CVE-2022-20652 Cisco Tetration Command Injection Vulnerability
Authenticated remote attackers with admin credentials can inject commands to execute code with root privileges on Cisco Tetration.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-20652?
CVE-2022-20652 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Cisco Secure Workload, published on 15 Nov 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface and in the API subsystem of Cisco Tetration could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary commands to be executed with root-level privileges on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted HTTP message to the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands with root-level privileges. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need valid administrator-level credentials.Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
Weakness: CWE-78
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-20652?
How do I fix CVE-2022-20652?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-20652 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2022-20652 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-20652 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-f2mp-jf9g-wxgx.