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Cisco Catalyst Center Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Medium · Updated · Cisco

1 product with CSAF evidence

A vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst Center could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute operations that should require Administrator privileges. The attacker would need valid read-only user credentials. This vulnerability is due to improper role-based access control (RBAC). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to an affected system and modifying certain policy configurations. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to modify policy configurations that are reserved for the Administrator role. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid credentials for a user account with at least the role of Observer. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.