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Cisco Zero-Day Exploited to Implant Malicious Lua Backdoor on Thousands of Devices
2023-10-21 03:46

Cisco has warned of a new zero-day flaw in IOS XE that has been actively exploited by an unknown threat actor to deploy a malicious Lua-based implant on susceptible devices. Tracked as CVE-2023-20273 (CVSS score: 7.2), the issue relates to a privilege escalation flaw in the web UI feature and is said to have been used alongside CVE-2023-20198 as part of an exploit chain. "The attacker first


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Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2023-10-25 CVE-2023-20273 OS Command Injection vulnerability in Cisco IOS XE
A vulnerability in the web UI feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to inject commands with the privileges of root.
network
low complexity
cisco CWE-78
7.2
2023-10-16 CVE-2023-20198 Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco IOS XE
Cisco is providing an update for the ongoing investigation into observed exploitation of the web UI feature in Cisco IOS XE Software.
network
low complexity
cisco
critical
10.0

Related vendor

VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Cisco 2046 21 1771 1669 288 3749
LUA 1 0 6 6 2 14