CVE-2024-20282: Cisco Nexus Dashboard

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in Cisco Nexus Dashboard could allow an authenticated, local attacker with valid rescue-user credentials to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient protections for a sensitive access token. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using this token to access resources within the device infrastructure. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to gain root access to the filesystem or hosted containers on an affected device.

Affected products

• Cisco Nexus Dashboard: before 3.1(1k) (fixed in 3.1(1k))

Published 2024-04-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.