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CVE-2026-20288

Cisco IMC Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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Not listed in CISA KEV
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco IMC could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with Admin privileges to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected system and elevate privileges to root.  This vulnerability is due to improper validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by entering crafted inputs to the web-based management interface of the affected software. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system as the root user.  Cisco has assigned this vulnerability a SIR of High rather than Medium as the score indicates because additional security implications could occur when the attacker becomes root.

Timeline

  1. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  2. CVE published
  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Cisco Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software

    4.1.1, 3.9.1, 3.5.2, 3.12.2, 3.6.2, 3.9.2, 3.11.3, 3.11.1, 3.5.1, 3.3.1, 3.10.2, 3.12.1b, 3.4.1, 3.12.1a, 3.6.3, 3.8.1, 3.11.2, 3.12.1, 3.12.3, 3.10.1, 3.6.1, 3.10.3, 3.7.1, 4.1.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.4.1, 4.4.2, 4.5.1, 4.4.3, and 39 more

  • Cisco Cisco Unified Computing System (Standalone)

    4.0(2g), 3.1(2i), 3.1(1d), 4.0(4i), 4.1(1c), 4.0(2c), 4.0(1e), 4.0(2h), 4.0(4h), 4.0(1h), 4.0(2l), 3.1(3g), 4.0(1.240), 4.0(2f), 4.0(1g), 4.0(2i), 3.1(3i), 4.0(4d), 4.1(1d), 3.1(3c), 4.0(4k), 3.1(2d), 3.1(3a), 3.1(3j), 4.0(2d), 4.1(1f), 4.0(4j), 4.0(2m), 4.0(2k), 4.0(1c), and 126 more

  • Cisco Cisco Unified Computing System E-Series Software (UCSE)

    3.2.7, 3.2.6, 3.2.4, 3.2.10, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.2.1, 3.2.11.1, 3.2.8, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.4, 3.1.3, 3.1.5, 3.1.0, 3.2.11.3, 3.2.11.5, 3.2.12.2, 3.2.13.6, 3.2.14, 4.11.1, 3.2.15, 4.12.1, 3.2.15.3, 4.12.2, 3.2.16.1, 4.15.2, 3.2.17.1, 4.15.3

References 1

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com