Cisco Prime Infrastructure Web-based Management Interface path traversal

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Evolved Programmable Network Manager. This impacts an unknown function of the component Web-based Management Interface. This manipulation causes path traversal. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-20129. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Evolved Programmable Network Manager (Network Management Software) (version now known). Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Web-based Management Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-27. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize multiple internal "../" sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based management interface of Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager (EPNM) could allow a remote attacker to obtain privileged information and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. For more information about these vulnerabilities, see the Details section of this advisory.

The weakness was released 04/06/2023 as cisco-sa-pi-epnm-eRPWAXLe. It is possible to read the advisory at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-20129 since 10/27/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-24308). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.7

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Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-27 / CWE-23 / CWE-22
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

10/27/2022 🔍
04/06/2023 +161 days 🔍
04/06/2023 +0 days 🔍
08/24/2025 +871 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco-sa-pi-epnm-eRPWAXLe
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-20129 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-20129
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-225091
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Entryinfo

Created: 04/06/2023 13:30
Updated: 08/24/2025 09:10
Changes: 04/06/2023 13:30 (48), 04/06/2023 13:32 (1), 04/23/2023 10:17 (11), 08/24/2025 09:10 (16)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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