CVE-2024-20418: Cisco Aironet Access Point Software

Critical severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Unified Industrial Wireless Software for Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) Access Points could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform command injection attacks with root privileges on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of input to the web-based management interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP requests to the web-based management interface of an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the underlying operating system of the affected device.

Affected products

• Cisco Aironet Access Point Software: up to and including 17.14
• Cisco Cisco Aironet Access Point Software IOS XE Controller: affected versions not specified

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