What is CVE-2022-20909?

CVE-2022-20909 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Nexus Dashboard, classified under Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition. CVSS score: 6.0/10. Published 2022-07-21.

How severe is CVE-2022-20909?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.0 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Cisco Nexus Dashboard

CVE-2022-20909

Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Nexus Dashboard could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges on an affected device. These vulnerabilities are due to insufficient input validation during CLI command execution on an a…

Vulnerability class: TOCTOU (Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use)

EPSS: 0.000 (7.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Cisco Nexus Dashboard — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-367 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

References

20220720 Cisco Nexus Dashboard Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-20909?: CVE-2022-20909 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Nexus Dashboard, classified under Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition. CVSS score: 6.0/10. Published 2022-07-21.
How severe is CVE-2022-20909?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.0 out of 10.