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CVE-2025-20338

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
24/09/2025
Last modified:
14/11/2025

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.<br /> <br /> 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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.00 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): High
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x
6.00
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:3.5.0e:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:3.5.0sq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:3.5.1e:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:3.5.1sq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:3.5.2e:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:3.5.2sq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:3.5.3e:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:3.5.3sq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:3.5.4sq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:3.5.5sq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:3.5.6sq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:3.5.7sq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:3.5.8sq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:3.6.0e:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:3.6.1e:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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