Is CVE-2023-20217 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2023-20217 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2023-20217?

CVE-2023-20217 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2023-20217?

CVE-2023-20217 has an EPSS score of 0.30% (22th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2023-20217?

Upgrade thousandeyes enterprise agent to 0.230 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2023-20217

MEDIUM

5.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent, Virtual Appliance installation type, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation by the operating system CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing certain commands using sudo. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to view arbitrary files as root on the underlying operating system. The attacker must have valid credentials on the affected device.

CWE-250

How to fix

Remediation Available

thousandeyes enterprise agentNVD

Affected:< 0.230Fixed in:0.230CVE-2023-20217derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityNone

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Exploit Intelligence

0.30%probability of exploitation in 30 days

22ndpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 22% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.