VM escape and root access bugs fixed in Cisco NFV infrastructure software


Cisco has released patches for a trio of bugs that hit its Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software, and could result in escaping from virtual machines, running commands as root, and leaking system data.

Leading the way with a CVSS score of 9.9 is CVE-2022-20777 and relates to a bug in next generation input/output feature that allowed an authenticated remote attacker to jump out of the guest VM and run commands as root on the host machines via an API call. Cisco obviously points out that such access could compromise the host completely.

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Source: ZDNet