CVE-2020-3297

Cisco Small Business Smart and Managed Switches Session Management Vulnerability

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: July 2, 2020 at 04:20 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:17 AM UTC
237 products affected across 1 vendorSg300-10pp FirmwareSg300-28mp FirmwareSf300-48pp Firmware

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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

A vulnerability in session management for the web-based interface of Cisco Small Business Smart and Managed Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to defeat authentication protections and gain unauthorized access to the management interface. The attacker could obtain the privileges of the highjacked session account, which could include administrator privileges on the device. The vulnerability is due to the use of weak entropy generation for session identifier values. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to determine a current session identifier through brute force and reuse that session identifier to take over an ongoing session. In this way, an attacker could take actions within the management interface with privileges up to the level of the administrative user.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

All versions
cisco-sf200-24 (same device)
All versions
cisco-sf200-24fp (same device)
All versions
cisco-sf200-24p (same device)
All versions
cisco-sf200-48 (same device)
All versions
cisco-sf200-48p (same device)
All versions
cisco-sf200e-24 (same device)
All versions
cisco-sf200e-24p (same device)
All versions
cisco-sf200e-48 (same device)
All versions
cisco-sf200e-48p (same device)
v < 2.5.5.47
Affected range stops below 2.5.5.47, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
cisco-sf250-24 (same device)

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-287

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