High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 23, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-20065

Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco IOx application hosting subsystem of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions on the hosted application. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to and then escaping the Cisco IOx application container. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with root privileges.

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Affected products

Cisco Systems, Inc./iOS Xe2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:17.11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:17.11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:17.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Cisco Systems, Inc./Ioxllm-create
Cisco Systems, Inc./IOS and IOS XE Softwarellm-fuzzy
Cisco Systems, Inc./IOS XE Software for Cisco Merakicpe-rescue
Range: 16.4.1

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References

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-iox-priv-escalate-Xg8zkyPknvdVendor Advisory

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