CVE-2025-20164
Cisco IOS
HIGH 8.3
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.34 % · percentile 28 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- cisco
- NVD status
- Deferred
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.
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
References
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 8.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H | cisco |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 8.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H | NVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-13900
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-20164
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-0378 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Cisco · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| 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 ; affected 15.2(3)E1 |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |