Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows Uncontrolled Search Path Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client)

CVE-2020-3153
MEDIUM 6.5CISA KEV β†—Exploited per ENISA since 2022-10-24

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 28.52 % Β· percentile 98 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A vulnerability in the installer component of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows could allow an authenticated local attacker to copy user-supplied files to system level directories with system level privileges. The vulnerability is due to the incorrect handling of directory paths. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a malicious file and copying the file to a system directory. An exploit could allow the attacker to copy malicious files to arbitrary locations with system level privileges. This could include DLL pre-loading, DLL hijacking, and other related attacks. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker needs valid credentials on the Windows system.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-427 β€” Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:Ncisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:NNVD Β· nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:NNVD Β· psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.9AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:NNVD Β· nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco Β· Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Clientaffected unspecified < n/a

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
CISA Known Exploited VulnerabilitiesCC0 1.0
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST β€” attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA β€” reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain β€” this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD