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CVE-2025-20337

10, critical Known exploited

Cisco Identity Services Engine Injection Vulnerability

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CVSS
10, critical critical CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
68% higher than 99.3% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
16 Jul 2025a year ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 28 Jul 2025. US federal agencies had to remediate by 18 Aug 2025, a deadline that has passed.

Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Description

A vulnerability in a specific API of Cisco ISE and Cisco ISE-PIC could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system as root. The attacker does not require any valid credentials to exploit this vulnerability. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted API request. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain root privileges on an affected device.

Details

Vendor
Cisco
Product
Cisco Identity Services Engine Software
Weakness
CWE-74 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
17 Jun 2026
Assigner
psirt@cisco.com

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

References 2

Advisories 1

Other references 1

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

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CVE-2025-20337 is in the CISA catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities: attackers are already exploiting it.

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.