CVE-2025-20338

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 6.0
EPSS
EPSS 0.30 % · percentile 22 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrative privileges to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system of an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user arguments that are passed to specific CLI commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to the device CLI with valid administrative (level 15) credentials and using crafted commands at the CLI prompt. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root.

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 · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco IOS XE Softwareaffected 3.5.0E ; affected 3.5.1E ; affected 3.5.2E ; affected 3.5.3E ; affected 3.11.1S ; affected 3.11.2S

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
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