CVE-2025-20117

Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Authenticated Command Injection Vulnerability

Severity
Medium 5.1
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.002
8.2th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Published by the vendor
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco APIC could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system of an affected device. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid administrative credentials. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments that are passed to specific CLI commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by including crafted input as the argument of an affected CLI command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with the privileges of root.

Weakness: CWE-77

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) Network & Security Management cna-assigner
Vendor-reported affected versions (1)
  • Cisco · Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)