CVE-2023-20273

Severity not reported CISA KEV

Data quality: kev only. This record comes from the CISA KEV catalog only; NVD details have not been synced yet.

Cisco IOS XE Web UI Command Injection Vulnerability

Vendor / product: Cisco — Cisco IOS XE Web UI

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.

CVSS

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Not reported by the source

Timeline (UTC)

Published: not reported

Modified: not reported

NVD status: not reported

Last synced 1 day ago

Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:50 UTC

Exploitation

Listed in CISA KEV

Added 2023-10-23 · due 2023-10-27

Known ransomware use: Unknown

Required action (CISA)

Verify that instances of Cisco IOS XE Web UI are in compliance with BOD 23-02 and apply mitigations per vendor instructions. For affected products (Cisco IOS XE Web UI exposed to the internet or to untrusted networks), follow vendor instructions to determine if a system may have been compromised and immediately report positive findings to CISA.

Affected products

Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.

References

No references reported.

Data sources

CISA KEV — fetched 2026-10-27 06:50 UTC · record ↗

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