CVE-2022-20762: Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the Common Execution Environment (CEE) ConfD CLI of Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure (SMI) software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient access control in the affected CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating as a CEE ConfD CLI user and executing a specific CLI command. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to access privileged containers with root privileges.

Affected products

• Cisco Ultra Cloud Core - Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure: from 2020.02.2.0, before 2020.02.2.47 (fixed in 2020.02.2.47); from 2020.02.6.0, before 2020.02.7.07 (fixed in 2020.02.7.07)

Published 2022-04-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.