Cisco Secure Network Analytics Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco Secure Network Analytics)

CVE-2025-20178
MEDIUM 6.0

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.37 % Β· percentile 31 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Secure Network Analytics could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with valid administrative credentials to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient integrity checks within device backup files. An attacker with valid administrative credentials could exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious backup file and restoring it to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain shell access on the underlying operating system with the privileges of root.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-347 β€” Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Ncisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD Β· psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD Β· nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco Β· Cisco Secure Network Analyticsaffected 7.5.0 ; affected 7.5.1 ; affected 7.5.2

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST β€” attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA β€” reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain β€” this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD