What is CVE-2022-20762?

CVE-2022-20762 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2022-04-06.

How severe is CVE-2022-20762?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure

CVE-2022-20762

A vulnerability in the Common Execution Environment (CEE) ConfD CLI of Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure (SMI) software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient access control in the affected CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating as a CEE ConfD CLI user and executing a specific CLI command. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to access privileged containers with root privileges.

Published 2022-04-06 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (16.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 16th percentile — 16.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-284 — Improper Access Control

References

tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-uccsmi-p… (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-20762?: CVE-2022-20762 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2022-04-06.
How severe is CVE-2022-20762?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.