CVE-2025-20281
Essential information
- Published
- 28/07/2025 02:00
- Modified
- 21/12/2025 16:20
- Author
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
- Creator
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
- CVSS
- 10.0 CRITICAL (v3.1)
- CISA KEV
- Yes
- CWE
- —
- CVSS vector
-
—
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/C:H/I:H/A:H—
CVSS metrics
- Access vector
- —
- Access complexity
- —
- Authentication
- —
- Confidentiality impact
- —
- Integrity impact
- —
- Availability impact
- —
- Exploitability
- —
- Remediation level
- —
- Report confidence
- —
- Temporal score
- —
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- LOW
- Privileges required
- NONE
- User interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
- Exploit code maturity
- —
- Remediation level
- —
- Report confidence
- —
- Temporal score
- —
- Attack vector
- —
- Attack complexity
- —
- Attack requirements
- —
- Privileges required
- —
- User interaction
- —
- Confidentiality (V)
- —
- Confidentiality (S)
- —
- Integrity (V)
- —
- Integrity (S)
- —
- Availability (V)
- —
- Availability (S)
- —
- Exploit maturity
- —
Description
A vulnerability in a specific API of Cisco ISE and Cisco ISE-PIC could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system as root. The attacker does not require any valid credentials to exploit this vulnerability.
This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted API request. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain root privileges on an affected device.
NVD status
- Status
- Awaiting Analysis — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- [email protected]
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| cisco / identity services engine | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:identity_services_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| cisco / identity services engine pic | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:identity_services_engine_pic:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |