# CVE-2024-20282: Privilege escalation in Cisco Nexus Dashboard

> An authenticated local attacker with rescue-user credentials can elevate privileges to root on Cisco Nexus Dashboard devices.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.0 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 3 Apr 2024
- **Updated:** 27 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-mg3q-349p-vcpv

## What is CVE-2024-20282?

CVE-2024-20282 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Nexus Dashboard, published on 3 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability in Cisco Nexus Dashboard could allow an authenticated, local attacker with valid rescue-user credentials to elevate privileges to root on an affected device.

 This vulnerability is due to insufficient protections for a sensitive access token. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using this token to access resources within the device infrastructure. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to gain root access to the filesystem or hosted containers on an affected device.

Weakness: CWE-522 (Insufficiently Protected Credentials), CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-20282?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Cisco Nexus Dashboard.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-20282?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-20282 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-20282 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-20282 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Nexus Dashboard

- [CVE-2022-20857](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-20857/): Cisco Nexus Dashboard Unauthorized Access Vulnerabilities (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-20858](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-20858/): Cisco Nexus Dashboard Unauthorized Access Vulnerabilities (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-20861](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-20861/): Cisco Nexus Dashboard Unauthorized Access Vulnerabilities (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-20163](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-20163/): Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller SSH Host Key Vulnerability (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2024-20281](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20281/): Cross-site request forgery in Cisco Data Center Network Manager (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-20282 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-20282 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Nexus Dashboard, published on 3 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-20282 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Cisco Nexus Dashboard. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20282/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20282/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-20282
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20282
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-20282

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20282/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.