Overview

A vulnerability in the web-based Local Manager interface of the Cisco IOx application hosting environment could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user of the web-based Local Manager interface of an affected device.

Impact

The attacker must have valid Local Manager credentials.This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input by the web-based Local Manager interface.

Details

A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the affected web interface or allow the attacker to access sensitive browser-based information.

Solution

Security patch

Upgrade to patched version (see above).

Workaround

There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-20725
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-iox-yuXQ6hFj

Credits

Orange CERT-CC
Cyrille CHATRAS at Orange group

Timeline

Date reported: June 06, 2021
Date fixed: April 13, 2022