Cisco IOS XR Open Port Vulnerability (CVE-2022-20821)

A remote attacker, without authentication, can achieve partial data exposure, partial data tampering. Federal agencies are required to remediate by 2022-06-13 under CISA BOD 22-01.

This is a Information Disclosure (CWE-200) vulnerability in Cisco IOS XR. A vulnerability in the health check RPM of Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access the Redis instance that is running within the NOSi container. This vulnerability exists because the health check RPM opens TCP port 6379 by default upon activation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by connecting to the Redis instance on the open port. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to write to the Redis in-memory database, write arbitrary files to the container filesystem, and retrieve information about the Redis database. Given the configuration of the sandboxed container that the Redis instance runs in, a remote attacker would be unable to execute remote code or abuse the integrity of the Cisco IOS XR Software host system. Exploitation requires remote network access, low attack complexity, no authentication required, and no user interaction required.

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CISA added this CVE to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-05-23 based on evidence of active exploitation in the wild. Federal agencies required to remediate by 2022-06-13.