CVE-2023-20273
CISA KEV
ACT NOW
Priority: 0.00
BB Relevance:
10/100
Published: N/A
Modified: N/A
First seen: 2026-10-29
Status: pending_score
Description
Cisco IOS XE contains a command injection vulnerability in the web user interface. When chained with CVE-2023-20198, the attacker can leverage the new local user to elevate privilege to root and write the implant to the file system. Cisco identified CVE-2023-20273 as the vulnerability exploited to deploy the implant. CVE-2021-1435, previously associated with the exploitation events, is no longer believed to be related to this activity.
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Vendor / Product
Cisco — Cisco IOS XE Web UI
Date Added
2023-10-23
Remediation Due
2023-10-27
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-iosxe-webui-privesc-j22SaA4z; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20273