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Fencer Vulns
high 7.0

CVE-2021-1442 json

Cisco IOS XE Software Plug-and-Play Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

published 2021-03-24 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-6909

cvss
7.0
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 16%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A vulnerability in a diagnostic command for the Plug-and-Play (PnP) subsystem of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to the level of an Administrator user (level 15) on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient protection of sensitive information. An attacker with low privileges could exploit this vulnerability by issuing the diagnostic CLI show pnp profile when a specific PnP listener is enabled on the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain a privileged authentication token. This token can be used to send crafted PnP messages and execute privileged commands on the targeted system.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-21-110-02 updated cvss 6.8

ICSA-21-110-02_Rockwell Automation Stratix Switches

  • Rockwell Automation Stratix 5400 <= 15.2(7)E3 Rockwell Automation Stratix 5410 <= 15.2(7)E3 Rockwell Automation Stratix 5700 <= 15.2(7)E3 Rockwell Automation Stratix 5800 <= 16.12.01 Rockwell Automation Stratix 8000 <= 15.2(7)E3
    affected: vendor fix, mitigation “Rockwell Automation encourages users of the affected Stratix devices to update to an available firmware revision that addresses the associated risk.” rockwellautomation.custhelp.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 7.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Cisco Cisco IOS XE Software

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
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References

Sources

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