CVE-2025-20261

Cisco Integrated Management Controller Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.46 % · percentile 39 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Deferred

Description

A vulnerability in the SSH connection handling of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) for Cisco UCS B-Series, UCS C-Series, UCS S-Series, and UCS X-Series Servers could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to access internal services with elevated privileges. This vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions on access to internal services. An attacker with a valid user account could exploit this vulnerability by using crafted syntax when connecting to the Cisco IMC of an affected device through SSH. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to access internal services with elevated privileges, which may allow unauthorized modifications to the system, including the possibility of creating new administrator accounts on the affected device.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-923 — Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hcisco
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Unified Computing System (Managed)affected 4.0(1a) ; affected 3.2(3n) ; affected 4.1(1a) ; affected 4.1(1b) ; affected 4.0(4h) ; affected 4.1(1c)
Cisco · Cisco Unified Computing System (Standalone)affected 4.0(2g) ; affected 3.1(2i) ; affected 3.1(1d) ; affected 4.0(4i) ; affected 4.1(1c) ; affected 4.0(2c)

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD