CVE-2025-20178
Cisco Secure Network Analytics Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.0 Medium
- Published
- Apr 16, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 26, 2026
- Reserved
- Oct 10, 2024
Description
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Secure Network Analytics could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with valid administrative credentials to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system.
This vulnerability is due to insufficient integrity checks within device backup files. An attacker with valid administrative credentials could exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious backup file and restoring it to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain shell access on the underlying operating system with the privileges of root.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.0 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N | cisco |
Weaknesses
- CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Cisco Secure Network AnalyticsCisco |
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References
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