CVE-2022-20725 Cisco IOx Application Hosting Environment Vulnerabilities
Attackers can inject commands to execute code or bypass authentication in Cisco IOx application hosting environments.
- 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-2022-20725?
CVE-2022-20725 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Cisco Ios, published on 15 Apr 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Multiple vulnerabilities in the Cisco IOx application hosting environment on multiple Cisco platforms could allow an attacker to inject arbitrary commands into the underlying host operating system, execute arbitrary code on the underlying host operating system, install applications without being authenticated, or conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user of the affected software. For more information about these vulnerabilities, see the Details section of this advisory.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-20725?
It affects 5 products.
Products include Cisco Cgr1000 Compute Module, Cisco Ic3000 Industrial Compute Gateway, Cisco Ios, Cisco Ios Xe, Cisco Ir510 Operating System.
How do I fix CVE-2022-20725?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-20725 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-2022-20725 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-20725 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Ios
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c2qf-9gp9-pqg9.