Coverage › CVE-2020-3153
CVE-2020-3153 Unmapped
Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows Uncontrolled Search Path Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Cisco — AnyConnect Secure
- Description (CISA)
- Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows allows for incorrect handling of directory paths. An attacker with valid credentials on Windows would be able to copy malicious files to arbitrary locations with system level privileges. This could include DLL pre-loading, DLL hijacking, and other related attacks.
- Added to KEV
- 2022-10-24
- Due date
- 2022-11-14
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Known
- CWE
- CWE-427
- CISA notes
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ac-win-path-traverse-qO4HWBsj
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-3153 - Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2020-3153. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-427) — here is why — and does not guess.
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