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Community Alert, Unpatched Vulnerability in Cisco Business Router

By TechNewsCentre


Cisco acknowledged CVE-2023-20025 as critical and CVE-2023-20026, CVE-2023-20045, and medium vulnerability in the following products

  •     RV016 Multi-WAN VPN Routers
  •     RV042 Dual WAN VPN Routers
  •     RV042G Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Routers
  •     RV082 Dual WAN VPN Routers


This includes all software release which is installed in the above product Cisco does not provide any patch for these vulnerabilities and it will not provide them in the future as those products are already outdated and reached EOL. POC for the mentioned CVE is already available online and cisco offers a workaround to prevent any damage to the organization due to the vulnerabilities.



CVE-2023-20025 is a vulnerability that resides in the web-based management interface of Cisco Small Business RV016, RV042, RV042G, and RV082 Routers that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of user input within incoming HTTP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the web-based management interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass authentication and gain root access to the underlying operating system
CVE-2023-20026 is a vulnerability due to improper validation of user input within incoming HTTP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the web-based management interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain root-level privileges and access unauthorized data. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to have valid administrative credentials on the affected device.

 Workarounds offered by Cisco Advisory team

    There are no workarounds that address these vulnerabilities. However, administrators can mitigate the vulnerabilities by disabling remote management and blocking access to ports 443 and 60443. The routers will still be accessible through the LAN interface after the mitigation has been implemented.
    Disable Remote Management

    To disable remote management, do the following:
        Log in to the web-based management interface for the device.
        Choose Firewall > General.
        Uncheck the Remote Management check box.

    Block Access to Ports 443 and 60443

    First, add a new service to the access rules of the device for port 60443. It is not necessary to create a service for port 443 because it is predefined in the services list.
        Log in to the web-based management interface for the device.
        Choose Firewall > Access Rules.
        Click Service Management.
        In the Service Name field, enter TCP-60443.
        From the Protocol drop-down list, choose TCP.
        In both of the Port Range fields, enter 60443.
        Click Add to List.
        Click OK.

    Next, create access rules to block ports 443 and 60443. To create an access rule to block port 443, do the following:
        Log in to the web-based management interface for the device.
        Choose Firewall > Access Rules.
        Click Add.
        From the Action drop-down list, choose Deny.
        From the Service drop-down list, choose HTTPS (TCP 443-443).
        From the Log drop-down list, choose Log packets match this rule.
        From the Source Interface drop-down list, choose the option that matches the WAN connection on the device.
        From the Source IP drop-down list, choose Any.
        From the Destination IP drop-down list, choose Single.
        In both of the Destination IP fields, enter the WAN IP address.
        Click Save.

    To create an access rule to block port 60443, repeat the preceding steps, but for Step 5, choose HTTPS (TCP 60443-60443) from the Service drop-down list.

    Note: If a second WAN port is being used, two additional ACL rules need to be set up using the WAN number and IP address for the second WAN port.

    While this mitigation has been deployed and was proven successful in a test environment, customers should determine the applicability and effectiveness in their own environment and under their own use conditions. Customers should be aware that any workaround or mitigation that is implemented may negatively impact the functionality or performance of their network based on intrinsic customer deployment scenarios and limitations. Customers should not deploy any workarounds or mitigations before first evaluating the applicability to their own environment and any impact to such environment.

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