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CVE record · CVE-2023-20186

Improper authorization in Cisco IOS and others

CVSS 8.0 HighEPSS 0.0078 · 56th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: cisco) at 27 Sept 2023, 17:22 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Cisco IOS
  • affected 12.2(58)SE
  • affected 12.2(58)SE1
  • affected 12.2(58)SE2
  • affected 12.2(58)EX
  • affected 12.2(58)EY
  • affected 12.2(58)EY1
  • affected 12.2(58)EY2
  • affected 12.2(58)EZ
  • affected 12.2(60)EZ
  • affected 12.2(60)EZ1
  • affected 12.2(60)EZ2
  • affected 12.2(60)EZ3
  • and 602 more
Cisco Cisco IOS XE Software
  • affected 3.7.0S
  • affected 3.7.1S
  • affected 3.7.2S
  • affected 3.7.3S
  • affected 3.7.4S
  • affected 3.7.5S
  • affected 3.7.6S
  • affected 3.7.7S
  • affected 3.7.4aS
  • affected 3.7.2tS
  • affected 3.7.0bS
  • affected 3.7.1aS
  • and 368 more
Identifiers
CVE-2023-20186
CNA
cisco
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-285
Tags
Published
27 Sept 2023
Updated
16 Dec 2025

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.0 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (cisco)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0078, the 56th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 27 Sept 2023. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.