Known Exploited Vulnerabilities October 23, 2023 · CISA KEV Catalog

CVE-2023-20273: Cisco IOS XE Web UI Command Injection Vulnerability

Cisco IOS XE contains a command injection vulnerability in the web user interface. When chained with CVE-2023-20198, the attacker can leverage the new local user to elevate privilege to root and write the implant to the file system. Cisco identified CVE-2023-20273 as the vulnerability exploited to deploy the implant. CVE-2021-1435, previously associated with the exploitation events, is no longer believed to be related to this activity.

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