CVE-2024-20449: Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with low privileges to execute arbitrary code on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper path validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using the Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) to upload malicious code to an affected device using path traversal techniques. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code in a specific container with the privileges of root.

Affected products

• Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller: from 12.0.0, up to and including 12.2.2

Published 2024-10-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.