Cisco Data Center Network Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions during the execution of an affected CLI command. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating as the fmserver user and submitting malicious input to a specific command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to root and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.63% · top 50% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• CWE-88 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-88 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Cisco · Cisco Data Center Network Manager

  • affected n/a

What to do

Exploitation: The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory.

References (1)

• 20200715 Cisco Data Center Network Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_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

[![CVE-2020-3380](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2020-3380.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2020-3380)

Record last updated 15 Nov 2024, 16:52 UTC.