Medium severity4.4NVD Advisory· Published Mar 23, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-20029

Description

A vulnerability in the Meraki onboarding feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain root level privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient memory protection in the Meraki onboarding feature of an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by modifying the Meraki registration parameters. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to root.

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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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References

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-iosxe-priv-esc-sABD8hcUnvdVendor Advisory

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