CVE-2025-20164

A vulnerability in the Cisco Industrial Ethernet Switch Device Manager (DM) of Cisco IOS Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges. This vulnerability is due to i

Severity
High 8.3
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.003
24.4th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Published by the vendor
Published
May 7, 2025
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco Industrial Ethernet Switch Device Manager (DM) of Cisco IOS Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of authorizations for authenticated users. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to privilege level 15. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid credentials for a user account with privilege level 5 or higher. Read-only DM users are assigned privilege level 5.

Weakness: CWE-862

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco IOS Software Routing & Switching cna-assigner
Vendor-reported affected versions (1)
  • Cisco · IOS