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CVE-2025-20164

Published: May 7, 2025

Modified: Feb 26, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

8.3

HIGH

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.

VendorProductVersions

Cisco

IOS

affected
15.0(2)SE8
affected
15.0(2)EA
affected
15.0(2)EA1
affected
15.2(2)E
affected
15.2(2)E1

+70 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-862

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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