CVE-2022-20652: Cisco Secure Workload

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface and in the API subsystem of Cisco Tetration could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary commands to be executed with root-level privileges on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted HTTP message to the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands with root-level privileges. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need valid administrator-level credentials.Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Cisco Cisco Secure Workload: version 2.2.1.41 only; version 3.2.1.18 only; version 3.3.2.50 only; version 3.4.1.28 only; version 3.4.1.34 only; version 2.3.1.45 only; …
• Cisco Secure Workload: before 3.5.1.37 (fixed in 3.5.1.37)

Published 2024-11-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.