Medium [CVE-2026-20092] Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
This medium-severity Cisco advisory covers CVE-2026-20092 affecting Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance.
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Summary
A vulnerability in the read-only maintenance shell of Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrative privileges to elevate privileges to root on the virtual appliance.
This vulnerability is due to improper file permissions on configuration files for system accounts within the maintenance shell of the virtual appliance. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by accessing the maintenance shell as a read-only administrator and manipulating system files to grant root privileges.
A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate t…
- Scope: This vulnerability affects Cisco Intersight Connected Virtual Appliance (CVA), which is cloud based.
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Fixed versions
No fixed release is recorded yet. That does not prove no patch exists — confirm against the vendor advisory.
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Mitigation checklist
- There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
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