CVE-2022-20864

Cisco IOS XE ROM Monitor Software for Catalyst Switches Information Disclosure Vulnerability

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 4.6
EPSS: EPSS 0.29 % · percentile 21 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2022-10-10
Updated: 2024-11-01
Assigner: cisco
NVD status: Modified

Description

A vulnerability in the password-recovery disable feature of Cisco IOS XE ROM Monitor (ROMMON) Software for Cisco Catalyst Switches could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to recover the configuration or reset the enable password. This vulnerability is due to a problem with the file and boot variable permissions in ROMMON. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by rebooting the switch into ROMMON and entering specific commands through the console. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read any file or reset the enable password.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.6	CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	cisco
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.6	CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.6	CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-538

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-26114
GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-20864

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe_rom_monitor:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
Cisco · Cisco IOS XE Software	affected n/a

References

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-iosxe-info-disc-nrORXjO

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD