Cisco IOS XE ROM Monitor Software Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco IOS XE ROMMON Software)

CVE-2020-3524
MEDIUM 6.4

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.29 % · percentile 21 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Modified

Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco IOS XE ROM Monitor (ROMMON) Software for Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers, Cisco ASR 920 Series Aggregation Services Routers, Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers, and Cisco cBR-8 Converged Broadband Routers could allow an unauthenticated, physical attacker to break the chain of trust and load a compromised software image on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to the presence of a debugging configuration option in the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by connecting to an affected device through the console, forcing the device into ROMMON mode, and writing a malicious pattern using that specific option on the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to break the chain of trust and load a compromised software image on the affected device. A compromised software image is any software image that has not been digitally signed by Cisco.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-284 — Improper Access Control
  • CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.4CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hcisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.8CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.4CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco IOS XE ROMMON Softwareaffected n/a

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD