A vulnerability in the container management subsystem of Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) Center could allow an unauthenticated,…

Description

A vulnerability in the container management subsystem of Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) Center could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and gain elevated privileges. This vulnerability is due to an insecure default configuration of the Kubernetes container management subsystem within DNA Center. An attacker who has the ability to access the Kubernetes service port could execute commands with elevated privileges within provisioned containers. A successful exploit could result in a complete compromise of affected containers. This vulnerability affects Cisco DNA Center Software Releases 1.1.3 and prior. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvi47253.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.9% · top 7.9% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 10.0.

Weakness

• CWE-358 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-358 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center

  • affected Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center

References (2)

• 104192 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180516-dna (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 29 Nov 2024, 15:10 UTC.