High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 21, 2022· Updated Jun 22, 2026
CVE-2022-20773
CVE-2022-20773
Description
A vulnerability in the key-based SSH authentication mechanism of Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance (VA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to impersonate a VA. This vulnerability is due to the presence of a static SSH host key. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by performing a man-in-the-middle attack on an SSH connection to the Umbrella VA. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to learn the administrator credentials, change configurations, or reload the VA. Note: SSH is not enabled by default on the Umbrella VA.
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Affected products
3- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:umbrella_virtual_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*Range: <3.3.2
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