Cybersecurity Alerts

Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows DLL Hijacking Vulnerability

Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows interprocess communication (IPC) channel allows for insufficient validation of resources that are loaded by the application at run time. An attacker with valid credentials on Windows could execute code on the affected machine with SYSTEM privileges.

Required Action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Weakness Classification

CWE-427

References

• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-anyconnect-dll-F26WwJW
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-3433