Cisco Integrated Management Controller Web-Based Management Interface Command Injection Vulnerability [CVE-2024-20356]
CVE number = CVE-2024-20356
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with Administrator-level privileges to perform command injection attacks on an affected system and elevate their privileges to root.
This vulnerability is due to insufficient user input validation.
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted commands to the web-based management interface of the affected software.
A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate their privileges to root.
Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability.
There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
This advisory is available at the following link:
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-cimc-cmd-inj-bLuPcb
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