Cisco Zero-Day Exploited to Implant Malicious Lua Backdoor on Thousands of Devices
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2021-1435 | A vulnerability in the web UI of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary commands that can be executed as the… | 7.2 | 8% | ||
| CVE-2023-20198 | Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation in Cisco IOS XE Web UI (Actively Exploited) | 10.0 | 100% | KEV | KEV |
| CVE-2023-20273 | Authenticated Command Injection (Root) in Cisco IOS XE Web UI | 7.2 | 93% | KEV | KEV |
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Cisco has warned of a new zero-day flaw in IOS XE that has been actively exploited by an unknown threat actor to deploy a malicious Lua-based implant on susceptible devices. Tracked as CVE-2023-20273 (CVSS score: 7. 2), the issue relates to a privilege escalation flaw in the web UI feature and is said to have been used alongside CVE-2023-20198 (CVSS score: 10.
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