Medium severity4.7NVD Advisory· Published Apr 15, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-20693

Description

A vulnerability in the web UI feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform an injection attack against an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted input to the web UI API. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to inject commands to the underlying operating system with root privileges.

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Affected products

Cisco Systems, Inc./IOS and IOS XE Softwarellm-fuzzy
Cisco Systems, Inc./IOS XE Software for Cisco Merakicpe-rescue
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Patches

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References

tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-webuiapi-inj-Nyrq92OdnvdVendor Advisory

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