CVE-2023-20038 — A vulnerability in the monitoring application of Cisco Industrial Network Direct

A vulnerability in the monitoring application of Cisco Industrial Network Director could allow an authenticated, local attacker to access a static secret key used to store both local data and credentials for accessing remote systems. This vulnerability is due to a static key valu

01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability in the monitoring application of Cisco Industrial Network Director could allow an authenticated, local attacker to access a static secret key used to store both local data and credentials for accessing remote systems. This vulnerability is due to a static key value stored in the application used to encrypt application data and remote credentials. An attacker could exploit this…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	Cisco Industrial Network Director	1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.4.0, 1.0.0, 1.0.1

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-01-19T01:34:24.311Z
• Last modified: 2024-10-28T16:34:24.962Z

09References

• sec.cloudapps.cisco.com — https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/ci…