CVE-2025-20286

ISE on AWS Static Credential

Severity
Critical 9.9
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.011
62.2th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Published by the vendor
Published
Jun 4, 2025
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) cloud deployments of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive data, execute limited administrative operations, modify system configurations, or disrupt services within the impacted systems. This vulnerability exists because credentials are improperly generated when Cisco ISE is being deployed on cloud platforms, resulting in different Cisco ISE deployments sharing the same credentials. These credentials are shared across multiple Cisco ISE deployments as long as the software release and cloud platform are the same. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by extracting the user credentials from Cisco ISE that is deployed in the cloud and then using them to access Cisco ISE that is deployed in other cloud environments through unsecured ports. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to access sensitive data, execute limited administrative operations, modify system configurations, or disrupt services within the impacted systems. Note: If the Primary Administration node is deployed in the cloud, then Cisco ISE is affected by this vulnerability. If the Primary Administration node is on-premises, then it is not affected.

Weakness: CWE-259

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Identity / IAM / MFA cna-assigner
Vendor-reported affected versions (1)
  • Cisco · Cisco Identity Services Engine Software