Is CVE-2023-20224 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2023-20224 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2023-20224?

CVE-2023-20224 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2023-20224?

CVE-2023-20224 has an EPSS score of 0.42% (34th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2023-20224?

Upgrade thousandeyes enterprise agent to 0.230 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2023-20224

HIGH

7.8

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 to root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of user-supplied CLI arguments. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to an affected device and using crafted commands at the prompt. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root. The attacker must have valid credentials on the affected device.

CWE-284Improper Access Control CWE-88

How to fix

Remediation Available

thousandeyes enterprise agentNVD

Affected:< 0.230Fixed in:0.230CVE-2023-20224derived 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

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.42%probability of exploitation in 30 days

34thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 34% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com

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CVE-2023-38205	High	7.5	100%	KEV	-
CVE-2024-27348	Critical	9.8	99%	KEV	Fix

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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.