CVE-2025-20119
Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Authenticated Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.0 Medium
- Published
- Feb 26, 2025
- Updated
- Mar 3, 2025
- Reserved
- Oct 10, 2024
Description
A vulnerability in the system file permission handling of Cisco APIC could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite critical system files, which could cause a DoS condition. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid administrative credentials.
This vulnerability is due to a race condition with handling system files. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by doing specific operations on the file system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to overwrite system files, which could lead to the device being in an inconsistent state and cause a DoS condition.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.0 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H | cisco |
Weaknesses
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)Cisco |
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References
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