CVE-2023-20185 — A vulnerability in the Cisco ACI Multi-Site CloudSec encryption feature of Cisco

A vulnerability in the Cisco ACI Multi-Site CloudSec encryption feature of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in ACI mode could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to read or modify intersite encrypted traffic. This vulnerability is due to an issue with the implementat

01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability in the Cisco ACI Multi-Site CloudSec encryption feature of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in ACI mode could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to read or modify intersite encrypted traffic. This vulnerability is due to an issue with the implementation of the ciphers that are used by the CloudSec encryption feature on affected switches. An attacker with an on-path…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	Cisco NX	OS System Software in ACI Mode — 14.0(1h), 14.0(2c), 14.0(3d), 14.0(3c), 14.1(1i), 14.1(1j), 14.1(1k), 14.1(1l), 14.1(2g), 14.1(2m), 14.1(2o), 14.1(2s), 14.1(2u), 14.1(2w), 14.1(2x), 14.2(1i), 14.2(1j), 14.2(1l), 14.2(2e), 14.2(2f), 14.2(2g), 14.2(3j), 14.2(3l), 14.2(3n), 14.2(3q), 14.2(4i), 14.2(4k), 14.2(4o), 14.2(4p), 14.2(5k), 14.2(5l), 14.2(5n), 14.2(6d), 14.2(6g), 14.2(6h), 14.2(6l), 14.2(7f), 14.2(7l), 14.2(6o), 14.2(7q), 14.2(7r), 14.2(7s), 14.2(7t), 14.2(7u), 14.2(7v), 14.2(7w), 15.0(1k), 15.0(1l), 15.0(2e), 15.0(2h), 15.1(1h), 15.1(2e), 15.1(3e), 15.1(4c), 15.2(1g), 15.2(2e), 15.2(2f), 15.2(2g), 15.2(2h), 15.2(3e), 15.2(3f), 15.2(3g), 15.2(4d), 15.2(4e), 15.2(5c), 15.2(5d), 15.2(5e), 15.2(4f), 15.2(6e), 15.2(6g), 15.2(7f), 15.2(7g), 15.2(8d), 15.2(8e), 15.2(8f), 15.2(8g), 15.2(8h), 16.0(1g), 16.0(1j), 16.0(2h), 16.0(2j), 16.0(3d), 16.0(3e), 15.3(1d)

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

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

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: 2023-07-12T13:50:35.866Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T09:05:36.245Z

09References

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