CVE-2021-1391

Description

A vulnerability in the dragonite debugger of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate from privilege level 15 to root privilege. The vulnerability is due to the presence of development testing and verification scripts that remained on the device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by bypassing the consent token mechanism with the residual scripts on the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to escalate from privilege level 15 to root privilege.

Risk Information

Base Score
6.7
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.041

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability For Cisco IOSNCM
Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability For Cisco IOS XE SoftwareNCM
CVE-2021-1391NCM

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-1706090Security Update for Cisco IOS Amsterdam-17.2.1r
PATCH-1706107Security Update for Cisco IOS XE Software 5.2(1)SV5(1.3a)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234