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CVE-2025-20186

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-78 OS Command Injections
Publication date:
07/05/2025
Last modified:
11/07/2025

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of the Wireless LAN Controller feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with a lobby ambassador user account to perform a command injection attack against an affected device.<br /> <br /> This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted input to the web-based management interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary Cisco IOS XE Software CLI commands with privilege level 15.<br /> <br /> Note: This vulnerability is exploitable only if the attacker obtains the credentials for a lobby ambassador account. This account is not configured by default.

Impact

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

Base Score: 8.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

Base Score 3.x
8.80
Severity 3.x
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.12.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.12.4a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.12.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.12.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.12.6a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.12.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.12.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:17.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:17.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:17.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:17.3.1a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:17.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:17.3.2a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:17.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:17.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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