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CVE-2025-20117

Published: Feb 26, 2025

Modified: Feb 27, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.1

MEDIUM

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.

VendorProductVersions

Cisco

Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)

affected
3.2(8d)
affected
3.2(1m)
affected
3.2(5e)
affected
4.1(2m)
affected
3.2(41d)

+123 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

High

Availability

None

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